A30137:374
A defence of the doctrine of justification, by faith in Jesus Christ
A defence of the doctrine of justification, by faith in Jesus Christ: showing, true Gospel-holiness flows from thence. Or, Mr. Fowler's pretended design of Christianity, proved to be nothing more then to trample under foot the blood of the Son of God and the idolizing of man's own righteousness. As also, how while he pretends to be a minister of the Church of England, he overthroweth the wholesome doctrine contained in the 10th. 11th. and 13th. of the Thirty Nine Articles of the same, and that he falleth in with the Quaker, and Romanist, against them. By John Bunyan.A defence of the doctrine of justification, by faith in Jesus Christ: shewing, true Gospel-holiness flows from thence. Or, Mr. Fowler's pretended design of Christianity, proved to be nothing more then to trample under foot the blood of the Son of God and the idolizing of man's own righteousness. As also, how while he pretends to be a minister of the Church of England, he overthroweth the wholesom doctrine contained in the 10th. 11th. and 13th. of the Thirty Nine Articles of the same, and that he falleth in with the Quaker, and Romanist, against them. By John Bunyan.
London: printed for Francis Smith, 1673
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
1. In the Type, when the bloody Sacrifices were to be offered, and an Atonement made for the Soul, the People were only to confess their Sins over the head of the Bullock, or Goat, or Lamb, by laying their Hands thereon, and so the Sacrifice was to be slain. They were only to acknowledge their Sins. And observe it, in the day that these offerings were made, they were not to Work all; For he that did any Work therein, was to be cut off from his People, Lev. 4. ch. 16. ch. 23.
1. In the Type, when the bloody Sacrifices were to be offered, and an Atonement made for the Soul, the People were onely to confess their Sins over the head of the Bullock, or Goat, or Lamb, by laying their Hands thereon, and so the Sacrifice was to be slain. They were onely to acknowledge their Sins. And observe it, in the day that these offerings were made, they were not to Work all; For he that did any Work therein, was to be cut off from his People, Lev. 4. ch. 16. ch. 23.
2. In the Antitype thus it runs; Christ dyed for our Sins; Christ gave himself for our Sins; He was made to be Sin for us; Christ was made a Curse for us.
Yea, but, say you, What pretence can there be, that Faith is the Condition, or Instrument of Justification, as it Complieth with only the Precepts of relying upon Christ's Merits; that is, first, or before the Soul doth other things.
Yea, but, say you, What pretence can there be, that Faith is the Condition, or Instrument of Justification, as it Complyeth with onely the Precepts of relying upon Christ's Merits; that is, first, or before the Soul doth other things.