A30137:493
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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Answ. This Scripture respecteth not at all the Moral Law, or obedience to the Dictates of Humane Nature, as an acceptable qualification precedent to Faith, or that, for the sake of which God will give Men Faith in, and a right understanding of the Gospel; but is it self an immediate exhortation to believing, with a promise of what shall follow; as who shall say, The Father hath sent me into the World to be Salvation to it, through Faith in my Blood: My Fathers will therefore is, that Men believe in me; and if any will do his will, he shall know of the Doctrine, he shall feel the power thereof, by the peace and comfort that will presently possess the Soul, and by the holy effects that follow.
Answ. This Scripture respecteth not at all the Morral Law, or obedience to the Dictates of Humane Nature, as an acceptable qualification precedent to Faith, or that, for the sake of which God will give Men Faith in, and a right understanding of the Gospel; but is it self an immediate exhortation to believing, with a promise of what shall follow; as who shall say, The Father hath sent me into the World to be Salvation to it, through Faith in my Blood: My Fathers will therefore is, that Men believe in me; and if any will do his will, he shall know of the Doctrine, he shall feel the power thereof, by the peace and comfort that will presently possess the Soul, and by the holy effects that follow.
That this is the true exposition of this place, will be verified if you consider, that to do the will of God, in a New Testament sense, is to be taken under a double consideration. 1. As it respecteth Christ. 2. Man.
That this is the true exposition of this place, will be verified if you consider, that to do the will of God, in a New Testament sence, is to be taken under a double consideration. 1. As it respecteth Christ. 2. Man.