A30137:404
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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6. This Doctrine teacheth farther, that Christ came to call, and Justify the Righteous, contrary to his express Word. In short, By this account of things, first, we must be healed, and then the Plaster comes.
6. This Doctrine teacheth farther, that Christ came to call, and Justifie the Righteous, contrary to his express Word. In short, By this account of things, first, we must be healed, and then the Plaister comes.
Yea, so Confident is this Man in this his Assertion, that he saith, it is not possible any other notion of this Doctrine should have truth in it, Pag. 226. O this Jesus! this Rock of offence! But he that believeth on him shall not be Confounded.
But Blessed be God for Jesus Christ, and for that he took our Nature, and Sin, and Curse, and Death upon him: And for that he did also by himself, by one Offering Purge our Sins. We that have believed have found rest, even there where God and his Father hath smelled a sweet savour of rest; because we are presented to God, even now complete in the Righteousness of him, and stand discharged of guilt, even by the Faith of him: Yea, as Sins past, so Sins to come, were taken up and satisfied for, by that offering of the Body of Jesus, we who have had a due sense of Sins, and of the Nature of the Justice of God, we know that no Remission of the guilt of any one can be, but by Atonement made by Blood, Heb. 9. 22. We also know that where Faith in Jesus Christ is wanting, there can be neither good Principle, nor good Endeavour; 1for Faith is the first of all Graces, and without it there is nothing but Sin. We know also, that Faith as a Grace in us, severed from the Righteousness of Christ, is only a beholder of things, but not a Justifier of Persons, and that if it lay not hold of, and applieth not that Righteousness which is in Christ, it carrieth us no farther then to the Devils. We know that this Doctrine killeth Sin,