A30137:519
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.
But; you say, it is that good habit, and temper of mind, that preferreth▪ God, and his Son Jesus Christ, before all the World.
Answ. He that esteemeth God above all, must needs, at least in his Judgement, so prefer him; but whereas you add (and his Son Jesus Christ) you put in them Words, but as a Cloak; For your self have not preferred his Son Jesus Christ; no, not before a Moral Law; no, not before your obedience to it, although but by Humane Principles; Yea, you have accounted the Command of God, by which we are enjoined by him, to come to God, a thing in it self but like Levitical Ceremonies, or as Baptism, and the Lord's Supper; a thing in itself indifferent, and absolutely considered neither good nor evil, Pag. 7, 8, 9.
Answ. He that esteemeth God above all, must needs, at least in his Judgement, so prefer him; but whereas you add (and his Son Jesus Christ) you put in them Words, but as a Cloak; For your self have not preferred his Son Jesus Christ; no, not before a Morral Law; no, not before your obedience to it, although but by Humane Principles; Yea, you have accounted the Command of God, by which we are injoyned by him, to come to God, a thing in it self but like Levitical Ceremonies, or as Baptism, and the Lord's Supper; a thing in it•self indifferent, and absolutely considered neither good nor evil, Pag. 7, 8, 9.
You add; It is such a temper as prizeth above all things; an interest in the Divine Perfections; such as Justice▪ and Righteousness, Universal Charity, Goodness, Mercy, Patience, and all kind of Purity.
You add; It is such a temp•r as prizeth above all things; an interest in the Divine Perfections; such as Justice and Righteousness, Vniversal Charity, Goodness, Mercy, Patience, and all kind of Purity.