A30137:523
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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That Scripture you mention, Rom. 14. 17. Although by the Word (Righteousness) there, is intended obedience to the Moral Law, yet to it by persons already Justified by Christ's Righteousness; hence they are said to do it in the Joy, and Peac• of the Holy Ghost; or by the Joy and Peace, which they had by Faith in Christ's Righteousness, as Revealed to them by the Spirit of God Hence again, they are said in IT to serve Christ, or to receive the Law at his hand, which he giveth to them to walk after, having first justified them from the Curse thereof by his Blood.
That Scripture you mention, Rom. 14. 17. Although by the Word (Righteousness) there, is intended obedience to the Morral Law, yet to it by persons already Justified by Christ's Righteousness; hence they are said to do it in the Joy, and Peac• of the Holy Ghost; or by the Joy and Peace, which they had by Faith in Christ's Righteousness, as Revealed to them by the Spirit of God Hence again, they are said in IT to serve Christ, or to receive the Law at his hand, which he giveth to them to walk after, having first justified them from the Curse thereof by his Blood.
2. The Law was given twice on Sinai; the last time, with a Proclamation of Mercy going before, and he that receiveth it thus, receiveth it after a Gospel manner. For they as Justified persons are dead to the Law,1 as a Covenant of Works, by the Body of Christ, that they might live to another, even to him that is raised from the Dead. But you by this Scripture intend not this Doctrine, for you make Justification by Christ, come after, not before obedience to the Law: Yea, you make obedience thereto, the Essential, and coming to God by Christ, but a thing of a more remote Nature, from true and substantial Gospel-Righteousness.