A30137:417
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.
Answ. The Holiness which you so often call the Design of Christianity, being by your self said to be that which we had lost, (for this one Sentence is it, on which your whole Book is built (P. 12.) whatsoever Doctrine, or Doctor it be that asserts it, both that Doctrine is of the Devil, and that Doctor an Angel of darkness, or rather a Minister of Satan, become as a Minister of ⟨p. 85⟩Righteousness. For where is it said in all the whole Book of God, that ever the Lord Christ Designed, yea made it his Errand from Heaven, to put us again in Possession of the Holiness which we had lost? Yet this you affirm, and tell us the business of your Book is to prove it: But blessed be God, your shifts are discovered, and your Fig-leaves rent from off you, and the Righteousness or Holiness so much cried up by you, proved to be none of the Holiness of the Gospel, but that which stood with perfect ignorance thereof. I might speak to what yet remains of falsehood, in the other part of this Chapter; but having overthrown the Foundation, and broken the Head of your Leviathan; what remains falleth of it self, and dyeth of it's own accord.
Answ. The Holiness which you so often call the Design of Christianity, being by your self said to be that which we had lost, (for this one Sentence is it, on which your whole Book is built (P. 12.) whatsoever Doctrine, or Doctor it be that asserts it, both that Doctrine is of the Devil, and that Doctor an Angel of darkness, or rather a Minister of Satan, become as a Minister of ⟨p. 85⟩Rigteousness. For where is it said in all the whole Book of God, that ever the Lord Christ Designed, yea made it his Errand from Heaven, to put us again in Possession of the Holiness which we had lost? Yet this you affirm, and tell us the business of your Book is to prove it: But blessed be God, your shifts are discovered, and your Fig-leaves rent from off you, and the Righteousness or Holiness so much cryed up by you, proved to be none of the Holiness of the Gospel, but that which stood with perfect ignorance thereof. I might speak to what yet remains of falshood, in the other part of this Chapter; but having overthrown the Foundation, and broken the Head of your Leviathan; what remains falleth of it self, and dyeth of it's own accord.