A30137:530
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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Answ. Our Saviours Life, in not only these, but all other Duties that respected Morals, was not Principally▪ or▪ First, to be imitated by us, but that the Law, even in the preceptive part thereof, might be fully, and perfectly fulfilled for us […] Christ is the […] of the Law for Righteousness; the end, not only of the Ceremonial Law, but the ten Commandments too: For if the word (Righteousness) respecteth in special them. Jesus increased in favour with God. This respecteth him as made under the Law,1 and his pleasing of God in that Capacity.2 So also doth that, In him I am well pleased. Now I say, as Jesus stood in this Capacity, he dealt with else Law in it is greatest force, and severity, as it immediately came from God, without the advantage of a Mediator; and stood by his perfect complying with, and fulfilling every Title thereof. Besides, as Jesus Christ had thus to do with the Law, he did it in order to his finishing transgression, 3and putting an end to Sin; and so consequently as Mediator, and Undertaker for the World: For his perfect complying withal, and fulfilling every Title of the Law, respected nothing his own private person, that he for himself might be Righteous thereby; for in himself he was eternally Just and Holy, even as the Father, but it respected us, even us; For US he was made under the Law,4 that we, by his fulfilling the Law, might by him be Redeemed from under the Law, and also receive the Adoption of SONS. For we having sinned, ••nd transgressed the Law, and the Justice of God, yet requiring obedience thereto, and the Law being too weak through our Flesh to do it, God therefore sent his own Son in the likeness of sinful Flesh; who himself for us did first of all, Walk in the Law, and then for Sin suffered also in his Flesh, the Sentence, and Curse pronounced against us by the Law: For it was nothing less necessary, when the Son of God became undertaker for the Sin of the World, that he should walk in obedience to the whole of the Precepts of the Law, to deliver us from the Judgement of the Law; I say it was no less necessary he should so do, then that he should bear our Curse and Death: For it would have been impossible for him to have overcome the last, if he had not been Spotless touching the first: For therefore it was impossible he should be holden of Death, because he did nothing worthy of Death;