A30137:68
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, 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, 2such are those that are Earthly; and as is the Heavenly, such are those that are Heavenly.
- 11 Cor. 6. 1•.
- 21 Cor. 15▪
Now whosoever hath not this Principle, although he be a Creature, and also have the Dictates of the humane Nature, yea, and also follows them, yet he is not Christs: If any man ⟨p. 8⟩have not the Spirit of Christ, 1he is none of his. Thus therefore is the Christian Principle, another from, and far above your Heathenish Pagan one. By […] is Spirit is the Christian qualified with Principles, not N••ural, but Spiritual, such as Faith, Hope, Joy, Peace, &c. all which are the fruits of the Revelation of the forgiveness of sins, freely by Grace, though the Redemption that it in Jesus Christ In this Spirit and Faith we walk,2 by this Spirit we are led, even into the Joy and Peace of the New Testament of our Lord;