A30137:415
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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Answ. Thus with one Word, as if he were Lord, and Judge himself, he sendeth to the Pit of Hell, all things that Sanctify, or make Holy the hearts of Men, if they oppose the Design of his Christianity. But what if the Holy Ghost will become a Principle in the hearts of the Converted, and will not now suffer them to act simply, and alone, upon the Principles of pure Humanity; or what now if Faith will become a Principle to act by, instead of these that are Originally Dictates of Humane Nature? Or, what if a Man should act now as a Son, rather then simply as a Creature endued with a Principle of Reason? I question here, whether these things thus doing do not obstruct, put by, yea, and take the way of his Pure Humanity, Dictates of Humane Nature; and instead thereof, Act, and Govern the Soul by, and with their own Principles. For albeit, there be the Dictates of Humane Nature in the Sons of Men, yet neither is this Nature, nor yet the Dictates of it, laid by Jesus Christ as the truly Christian Principles in his. But you add:
Answ. Thus with one Word, as if he were Lord, and Judge himself, he sendeth to the Pit of Hell, all things that Sanctifie, or make Holy the hearts of Men, if they oppose the Design of his Christianity. But what if the Holy Ghost will become a Principle in the hearts of the Converted, and will not now suffer them to act simply, and alone, upon the Principles of pure Humanity; or what now if Faith will become a Principle to act by, instead of these that are Originally Dictates of Humane Nature? Or, what if a Man should act now as a Son, rather then simply as a Creature indued with a Principle of Reason? I question here, whether these things thus doing do not obstruct, put by, yea, and take the way of his Pure Humanity, Dictates of Humane Nature; and instead thereof, Act, and Govern the Soul by, and with their own Principles. For albeit, there be the Dictates of Humane Nature in the Sons of Men, yet neither is this Nature, nor yet the Dictates of it, laid by Jesus Christ as the truly Christian Principles in his. But you add:
Those Doctrines which in their own Nature do evidently tend to the serving of THIS design of Christianity, we may conclude are most True, and Genuine, Pag. 229.