A30137:79
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.
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.
1. Such as are of an indispensable and Eternal Obligation, as those purely moral.
1. Such as are of an indispensible and Eternal Obligation, as those purely moral.
2. Such which you call positive precepts, in themselves of an indifferent Nature, and absolutely considered are neither good nor evil. Of those of this kind that we have under the Gospel, you say you know but three, viz, That of coming to God by Christ, and the Institutions of Baptism and the Lords Supper. Page 7 and Page 9.