A30137:400
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. This Concludeth that a Man may have true, yea, saving Grace in great and mighty action in him, before he hath Faith in the Righteousness of Christ. For if a Man must be sincerely Righteous first; then he must not only have that we call the Habit, but the powerful Acts of Grace.
3. This Concludeth that a Man may have true, yea, saving Grace in great and mighty action in him, before he hath Faith in the Righteousness of Christ. For if a Man must be sincerely Righteous first; then he must not onely have that we call the Habit, but the powerful Acts of Grace.
Besides, if the Righteousness of Christ is not to be looked to First, but Secondarily; not before, but after we be made sincerely Righteous; then may not Faith be thus acted if a man should have it, until he be first a sincerely Righteous Person.
4. This Concludeth that a Man may be brought from under the Curse of the Law in God's sight, before he have Faith in the Righteousness of Christ, yea, before it be imputed to him: For he that in God's account is reckoned sincerely Righteous, is beloved of his God.
5. This Concludeth that a Man may be from under the Curse