A30137:441
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 Second Chapter saith That the Design of Christianity teacheth us what Doctrines and Practises we ought as Christians to be most Zealous for, or against, Pag. •37.
Answ. But there is not by that (it being rightly stated) one Syllable that tendeth to encourage any Man, to have lower ⟨p. 89⟩thoughts of coming to God by Christ, then of keeping the Moral Law. For even the first Text you bring, doth utterly overthrow it. Contend, say you, for the Faith: I Answer then, not for the Law of Work; for the Law is not of Faith, but the Man that doth these things shall live in them, by them. Contend earnestly for the Faith, for there are certain men crept in unawares, which were before of old ordained unto this Condemnation; even the Condemnation that is to come upon them that Contend against the Faith;) for these ungodly Men turn the Grace of God into Lasciviousness, and deny the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ. Now these creeping ungodly Men, may be divided into three Ranks.
Answ. But there is not by that (it being rightly stated) one Sillable that tendeth to incourage any Man, to have lower ⟨p. 89⟩thoughts of coming to God by Christ, then of keeping the Morral Law. For even the first Text you bring, doth utterly overthrow it. Contend, say you, for the Faith: I Answer then, not for the Law of Work; for the Law is not of Faith, but the Man that doth these things shall live in them, by them. Contend earnestly for the Faith, for there are certain men crept in unawares, which were before of old ordained unto this Condemnation; even the Condemnation that is to come upon them that Contend against the Faith;) for these ungodly Men turn the Grace of God into Lasciviousness, and deny the onely Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ. Now these creeping ungodly Men, may be divided into three Rancks.