A30137:52
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.
First by or under what considerations it acts, and these you scatter here and there in this your description of holiness, under these heads.
First, To act as becomes a Creature endued with a principle of reason, eyeing the state or place in which God hath set him; approving of, affecting and complying with the Eternal Laws of righteousness, Pag. 6. which eternal Laws in Page 8. you call the Divine moral Laws, those that were first written in the hearts of men, and originally the dictates of humane Nature, &c.
First, To act as becomes a Creature indued with a principle of reason, eyeing the state or place in which God hath set him; approving of, affecting and complying with the Eternal Laws of righteousness, Pag. 6. which eternal Laws in Page 8. you call the Divine moral Laws, those that were first written in the hearts of men, and originally the dictates of humane Nature, &c.
Secondly, To do these, from truly generous Motives and Principles, Page 7. such as these.
1. Because it is most highly becoming all reasonable Creatures (you might also have added, and those unreasonable) to obey God in every thing (within their Spheres) and as much unbecoming them to disobey him, Page 8.