A30137:426
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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Of these Secondary Fundamentals therefore, (whatever is their number) this is one, even coming to God by Christ; for as in Page 7, and 9. he calleth it a Positive Precept, a thing that in it self is neither good nor evil; so here he speaks of such as are not in their own Nature Holy; not such, as that Holiness is not in some degree or other attainable without the belief of them.
Of these Secondary Fundamentals therefore, (whatever is their number) this is one, even coming to God by Christ; for as in Page 7, and 9. he calleth it a Possitive Precept, a thing that in it self is neither good nor evil; so here he speaks of such as are not in their own Nature Holy; not such, as that Holiness is not in some degree or other attainable without the belief of them.
That one of these Secondary Fundamentals is intended by Mr. Fowler, that of coming to God by Christ; I farther gather, because •e saith, that in the number of these, are all such Doctrines, as are with indisputable clearness revealed to us (that is, by the Holy Scriptures of the New Testament, Pag. 235.) For therein is this Revealed to be a Fundamental; but he saith, not a Primary one, because, that in it self it is but indifferent, and not in it's own Nature good. Now the belief of these; saith he, though it is not in it self any more, then in higher, or lower degrees profitable, (Confusion! Darkness! Confusion!) yet it is absolutely necessary from an External cause: That is, with such abundant clearness, as that nothing can cause men to refuse to admit them, but that which argueth them to be stark naught.
Answ. 1. Then, hence it seems▪ that the reason why you admit these Secondary sort of Fundamentals, is not from any Internal Power, but an External Declaration only.