A30137:508
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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2. That to be a Jewish Proselyte, was to live in the Faith of Messiah to come, is the strain of all the Scriptures that have to deal with them.
2. That to be a Jewish Proselite, was to live in the Faith of Messias to come, is the strain of all the Scriptures that have to deal with them.
3. But that ordaining men to Eternal Life, respects an act of the Jews, or that the Jews did dispense with the Gentile Proselytes, in their casting off all their Laws, but the seven Precepts of Noah.
3. But that ordaining men to Eternal Life, respects an act of the Jews, or that the Jews did dispence with the Gentile Proselites, in their casting off all their Laws, but the seven Precepts of Noah.
4. Or that God counted this a fit, or forerunning qualification to Faith in Jesus Christ, neither stands with the Word of God, nor the Zeal of that People.
5. Besides, the Words presently following seem to me to insinuate more; viz. That the Jews, and Religious Proselytes, that adhered to Paul, at his first Sermon, verse 43. did Contradict and Blaspheme at his second, verse 45. And moreover, that it was they that raised Persecution upon him, and expelled him out of their Coasts, verse 50. When the Gentiles, even those that were more Barbarously ignorant at his coming, when they heard that by Christ there was offered to them the forgiveness of Sins, they believed, verse 48. and Glorified the Word of the Lord. The Wisdom of Heaven so disposing such of their hearts, that were before by him, not by Jews, ordained to Life. And as many as were ordained to Eternal Life, believed.