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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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3. The Man and Principles you have stated, may be such as are utterly Ignorant of Jesus Christ, and of all his New Testament things as such: But the Natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God (the things of his New Testament) for they are foolishness to him, neither can he know them, because they are Spiritually discerned, 1 Cor. 2. 24.
4. Your qualifications and considerations, know nothing at all of the adoption of Sons, and of our acting and doing our Duty, as such. You only content your self to rest within the confines of the humane Nature, acts of reason, as men or Creatures only, or in their supposed pure, natural Principles.
And Sir, a little by way of digression; I will tell you also of our truly Christian righteousness, both as to its original or first Principle, and also how, or under what capacity it puts the Person that is acted by it.
First, The Principle which is laid within us, it is not the purity of the humane Nature,1 but of the Holy Ghost it self, which we have of God received, by believing in the Son of God, a principle as far above yours of Humanity, as is the Heavens above the Earth; yours being but like those of the first Adam, but ours truly those of the second. As is the Earthly,