A30137:77
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.
These Sir are the Motives by which we Christians act; because we are forgiven, because we are Sons, and if Sons, then Heirs, and so we act; but to speak to this more anon.
Perhaps you will say I deal not fairly with you, because you treat, as of moral, so of Gospel or New Testament Laws.
But to that I will answer at present, that in this description of your Holy Principle, which is the Foundation of your Book, whether the Laws be Natural or Spiritual, moral or of Grace, the Principle by which you do them, is no other then the Principle of Nature, the dictates of the humane Nature; and so such as can by no means reach the Doctrines of the Gospel any farther then to make a Judgment of them, by that wisdom which is enmity with God, as will farther be seen in my progress through your Book.
Indeed you make mention of Divine Laws, and that under two Heads.