A30137:389
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.
Answ. Although you speak this in great Derision to Faith when it worketh right, yet know that therefore (seeing you would hear it) I say, therefore, hath our Saviour merited pardon, and bestowed it on men freely, and bid them believe or receive it, and have it; that thereby they might be encouraged to live to him, and love him, and comply with his commandments. For scarcely for a Righteous Man will one dye, yet for peradventure for a good Man some would even dare to dye: But God commended his love to us, in that while we were yet Sinners Christ dyed for us. Much more then being NOW Justified, we shall be saved from Wrath through him. Now, as here we are said to be Justified by his Blood, that is, as his Blood appeaseth the Justice of God; so again, it is said that this Blood is set forth by God for us to have Faith in it, by the term of a Propitiation. Whom God hath set forth to be a Propitiation) or a Sacrifice to appease the displeasure of God) through Faith in his Blood. To declare at this time his Righteousness, that he might be Just, and the justifier of him that believeth in Jesus, Rom. 3.
Answ. Although you speak this in great Derision to Faith when it worketh right, yet know that therefore (seeing you would hear it) I say, therfore, hath our Saviour merited pardon, and bestowed it on men freely, and bid them believe or receive it, and have it; that thereby they might be incouraged to live to him, and love him, and comply with his commandements. For scarcely for a Righteous Man will one dye, yet for peradventure for a good Man some would even dare to dye: But God commended his love to us, in that while we were yet Sinners Christ dyed for us. Much more then being NOW Justified, we shall be saved from Wrath through him. Now, as here we are said to be Justified by his Blood, that is, as his Blood appeaseth the Justice of God; so again, it is said that this Blood is set forth by God for us to have Faith in it, by the term of a Propitiation. Whom God hath set forth to be a Propitiation) or a Sacrifice to appease the displeasure of God) through Faith in his Blood. To declare at this time his Righteousness, that he might be Just, and the justifier of him that believeth in Jesus, Rom. 3.