A30137:39
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.
But let us take Pauls definition of a man;1 There is none righteous, no not one, there is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God, they are all gone out of the way, they are• together become unprofitable, there is none that doth good, no not one. Their threat is an open Sepulchre, with their Tongues they have used deceit, the poison of Asps is under their lips, whose Mouth is full of Cursing and Bitterness; their feet are swift to shed Blood, destruction and misery are in their ways, and the way of Peace they have not known, there is no fear of God before their Eyes. I the rather give you this of Paul, then any of my own; because it is the soundest complexion of Soul, that the Holy Ghost himself could draw. Here is now no purity of the humane Nature, nor such sound complexion of Soul as can keep it self from mixing with that which is contrary to itself. And note, that this is the state of all men, and that as they stand on themselves before God; Wherefore together, even altogether, all the men in the World, take them in their most pure naturals, or with all the purity of humanity, which they can make, and together, they still will be unprofitable, and so must come short of doing good, that every mouth might be stopped, and all the World become guilty before God, ver. 19.
But let us take Pauls definition of a man;1 There is none righteous, no not one, there is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God, they are all gone out of the way, they are• together become unprofitable, there is none that doth good, no not one. Their threat is an open Sepulch•e, with their Tongues they have used deceit, the poison of Asps is under their lips, whose Mouth is full of Cursing and Bitterness; their feet are swift to shed Blood, destruction and misery are in their ways, and the way of Peace they have not known, there is no fear of God before their Eyes. I the rather give you this of Paul, then any of my own; because it is the soundest complexion of Soul, that the Holy Ghost himself could draw. Here is now no purity of the humane Nature, nor such sound complexion of Soul as can keep it self from mixing with that which is contrary to itself. And note, that this is the state of all men, and that as they stand on themselves before God; Wherefore together, even altogether, all the men in the World, take them in their most pure naturals, or with all the purity of humanity, which they can make, and together, they still will be unprofitable, and so must come short of doing good, that every mouth might be stopped, and all the World become guilty before God, ver. 19.