A30137:504
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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The Second Scripture; He that is of God heareth Gods Words; ye therefore hear them not, because you are not of God, John 8. 47.
Answ. This Scripture supposeth Men must first be of God, before they can hear God's Word; before they can hear it with the hearing of Faith; and therefore nothing respecteth those that before they have Faith, live in the Law of Works; and least of all, those that become obedient thereto, that thereby they may obtain everlasting life: For these are not of God, not of him in a New Testament Sense; not Sons, because they are born of Men, of the will of Men, of the Law, and according to the Wisdom of Flesh and Blood, John 1. 12, 13.
Answ. This Scripture supposeth Men must first be of God, before they can hear God's Word; before they can hear it with the hearing of Faith; and therefore nothing respecteth those that before they have Faith, live in the Law of Works; and least of all, those that become obedient thereto, that thereby they may obtain everlasting life: For these are not of God, not of him in a New Testament Sence; not Sons, because they are born of Men, of the will of Men, of the Law, and according to the Wisdom of Flesh and Blood, John 1. 12, 13.
Your Third Scripture is; And as many as were ordained to Eternal Life, believed, Act. 13. 48. Which Text you thus expound: That as many of the Gentiles as were disposed, or in a ready preparedness for Eternal Life, believed; that is those which were Proselytes of the Gate, who were admitted by the Jews, to the hope of Eternal Life, and to have a Portion in the Age to come, without submitting to the whole Law, or any more then owning the God of Israel, and observing the Seven Precepts of Noah.