A30137:40
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
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3. But proceeding, you say, that this complexion is so forcible as to keep his supreme faculty (I suppose you mean the Conscience) in its Throne, and that brings into due subjection all his inferior ones as namely his sensual imagination, brutish passions and affections.
3. But proceeding, you say, that this complexion is so forcible as to keep his supreme faculty (I suppose you mean the Conscience) in its Throne, and that brings into due subjection all his inferiour ones as namely his sensual imagination, bruitish passions and affections.
Answ. These words suppose that it is within the power of a mans own Soul, always to keep sin out of it self, and so guilt out of the Conscience; albeit the Scripture saith, that both the mind and it are defiled with the filth of sin, in all whoever do not believe the Gospel,1 with which belief this description me• leth not.
- 1Tit. […]. 15.Tit. 〈…〉. 15.
2. They suppose that this Conscience is perfectly clear and light, when the Scriptures say they have the understanding darkened; yea and farther, in despite of these your sayings of the sound complexion of Soul, of the purity of humane Nature, and of this supreme faculty, the Scriptures teach,1 that man in his best estate is altogether vanity, 2