A30137:419
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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Your Twenty first Chapter tells us (if we will believe you) how we shall Judge of the necessity of Doctrine, to be embraced, or rejected; also, you say, it giveth us a brief discourse of the Nature of Fundamentals. But because your discourse of them is general, and not any one Particularized, I might leave you in your generals, till you dealt more Candidly, both with the Word of God, and your abused Reader.
Your Twenty first Chapter tells us (if we will believe you) how we shall Judge of the necessity of Doctrine, to be imbraced, or rejected; also, you say, it giveth us a brief discourse of the Nature of Fundamentals. But because your discourse of them is general, and not any one Particularized, I might leave you in your generals, till you dealt more Candidly, both with the Word of God, and your abused Reader.
Indeed you tell us of Primary Fundamentals, such as without the Knowledge, and belief of which it is impossible to acquire that inward Righteousness, and Holiness which the Christian Religion Aimeth at; but the Particulars of these, say you, I shall not enumerate, because (as will appear from what will be said anon) it is not needful to have a just table of them.
Answ. Deep Divinity! First, They are such as without the Knowledge and Belief of them, it is not possible we should acquire your true Holiness; and yet for all that it is not needful that we be told what they are, or that we should have a just Table of them.