A30137:55
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.
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.
2. Because it is a base thing to do unjustly, Page 11.
Now a little to touch upon all these, and then to proceed to what is behind.
First, To act and do the things of the moral Law, but as Creatures endued with a Principle of Reason, is but to do things in our Sphere as Men, as the Beast, the Hog or Horse doth things in his, as a Beast which is at best, if it could be attained, to act but as pure naturals, which state of man is of at infinite distance from that, in which it is by God expected, the man must act, that doth ought that is pleasing in his fight. For
First, To act and do the things of the moral Law, but as Creatures indued with a Principle of Reason, is but to do things in our Sphere as Men, as the Beast, the Hog or Horse doth things in his, as a Beast which is at best, if it could be attained, to act but as pure naturals, which state of man is of at infinite distance from that, in which it is by God expected, the man must act, that doth ought that is pleasing in his fight. For