A30137:484
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.
Now this Doctrine being in it self of quite another Nature then the Doctrine of Faith, and also, as such, a Covenant by it self, it requireth the mind by virtue of it's Commands, to stand to THAT, and to rest in THAT: For of necessity the heart and mind of a Man, can go no farther, then it seeth, and hath learnt; but by this Moral Doctrine, the heart and mind is bound and limited to it self, by the power of the Dictate to obedience, and the promise of obtaining the Blessing,1 when the preceptive part of it is fulfilled. Hence Paul tells us that though that Ministration, that was Written, and Engraven in Stones, (which in Nature is the same with this) is glorious, yet these imperfections attended, the Man that was in it.
Now this Doctrine being in it self of quite another Nature then the Doctrine of Faith, and also, as such, a Covenant by it self, it requireth the mind by vertue of it's Commands, to stand to THAT, and to rest in THAT: For of necessity the heart and mind of a Man, can go no farther, then it seeth, and hath learnt; but by this Morral Doctrine, the heart and mind is bound and limited to it self, by the power of the Dictate to obedience, and the promise of obtaining the Blessing,1 when the preceptive part of it is fulfilled. Hence Paul tells us that though that Ministration, that was Written, and Ingraven in Stones, (which in Nature is the same with this) is glorious, yet these imperfections attended, the Man that was in it.
- 12 Cor 3.
1. He was but within the bounds of the Ministration of Death.