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A vindication of the book called, Some Gospel-truths opened; according to the Scriptures, and…
A vindication of the book called, Some Gospel-truths opened; according to the Scriptures, and the opposition made against it by Edward Borough, a professed Quaker, (but proved an enemy to the truth) examined and confuted by the word of God. And also, the things that were then laid down, and declared to the world by me, are a second-time born witness to, according to truth: with the answer of Edward Borough to the queries then laid down in my book reproved. And also, a plain answer to his queries, given in simplicity of soul; and is now also presented to the world, or who else may read, or hear them; to the end (if God will) that truth may be discovered thereby. / by John Bunyan ...A vindication of the book called, Some Gospel-truths opened; according to the Scriptures, and the opposition made against it by Edward Borrough, a professed Quaker, (but proved an enemie to the truth) examined and confuted by the word of God. And also, the things that were then laid down, and declared to the world by me, are a second-time born witness to, according to truth: with the answer of Edward Burrough to the quæries then laid down in my book reproved. And also, a plain answer to his quæries, given in simplicitie of soul; and is now also presented to the world, or who else may read, or hear them; to the end (if God will) that truth may be discovered thereby. / by John Bunyan ...
London: printed by Matthias Cowley, 1657
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And now friend, in love to thy soul, I say, have a care of thy self, that thou do not satisfy thy self with any thing, until thou seest by the operation of the Spirit of Christ (which thou must have given thee from heaven, as being without it before conversion) that the blood of that man Christ Jesus that was crucified on mount Calvary, did at that same time, when it was there shed, wash thee from all thy sins, and be not so stout, and so stern against the truth, because it suits not with thy beguiled conscience. (Bear with me in patience,) and seriously enquire into the truth of things according to the Scriptures, For they are they that testify of Christ, & how salvation doth come by him.
And now friend, in love to thy soule, I say, have a care of thy selfe, that thou do not satisfie thy selfe with any thing, untill thou seest by the operation of the Spirit of Christ (which thou must have given thee from heaven, as being without it before conversion) that the blood of that man Christ Jesus that was crucified on mount Calvary, did at that same time, when it was there shed, wash thee from all thy sins, and be not so stout, and so sterne against the truth, because it suits not with thy beguiled conscience. (Beare with me in patience,) and seriously enquire into the truth of things according to the Scriptures, For they are they that testifie of Christ, & how salvation doth come by him.
In thy entering upon my Book, the first thing I find thee, wrangle with, is First, by corrupting my words, and then by calling me liar.
In thy entering upon my Book, the first thing I find thee, wrangle with, is First, by corrupting my words, and then by calling me lyer.
Thou corruptest my words saying▪ That I said, The blood of Christ was shed before the world began. Whereas I said, that in the account of God, (mark, in the accoun of God) the blood of Christ was shed before the world began. Friend, art thou not able to distinguish, betwixt a thing being done in God's account, or according to his fore-knowledge, and a thing that is really and actually don? Surely it was either thy folly to speak evil of the things thou knowest not,