A30137:376
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.
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.
Answ. I say (avoiding your own Ambiguous terms) that it is the Duty, the indispensable Duty of all that would be saved, First, Immediately, now to close in by Faith with that work of Redemption, which Christ by his blood hath purchased for them, as they are Sinners.
Answ. I say (avoiding your own Ambiguous terms) that it is the Duty, the indispensible Duty of all that would be saved, First, Immediately, now to close in by Faith with that work of Redemption, which Christ by his blood hath purchased for them, as they are Sinners.
1. Because God doth hold it forth, yea, hath set it forth to be received by us, as such, Rom. 3. 23. to 27.