A30137:42
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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2. They suppose that this Conscience is perfectly clear and light, when the Scriptures say they have the understanding darkened; yea and farther, in despite of these your sayings of the sound complexion of Soul, of the purity of humane Nature, and of this supreme faculty, the Scriptures teach,1 that man in his best estate is altogether vanity, 2that they are darkness and night, 3&c.
- 1Eph. 4. 18, 19.
- 2Thes. 5.
- 3Psal. 39. 5.
Yea, say you, this sound complexion brings into due subjection all his inferior ones.
Yea, say you, this sound complexion brings into due subjection all his inferiour ones.
Answ. Here seems to be a contradiction to the former part of this description, yea, to the Nature of the Soul it self; for you say; before it suffereth not any thing unnatural to mix it self therewith, when yet here you seem to suggest that part, I say, even part of it self is disobedient and rebellious; It brings into subjection all his inferior ones.