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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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Answer. Friend, it is one thing to confess the things in words, and another thing to believe them, and to make a life out of them; and therefore is thy life made out of Christ without thee, by the operation of his spirit within thee, yea or no?
Answer. Friend, it is one thing to confesse the things in words, and another thing to believe them, and to make a life out of them; and therefore is thy life made out of Christ without thee, by the operation of his spirit within thee, yea or no?
Then in answer, to my bidding people receive no Christ, except God's Christ, thou sayest thus, That Christ is a mystery, and unto him is light, and shall be salvation where his person never came. Th•s Question I ask thee, did or doth Christ obtain salvation for any, without that •••y which he took of the Virgin? And yet thou sayest, it cannot be said, here is the place where the Son is not.
Then in answer, to my bidding people receive no Christ, except God's Christ, thou saiest thus, That Christ is a mistery, and unto him is light, and shall be salvation where his person never came. Th•s Question I aske thee, did or doth Christ obtaine salvation for any, without that •••y which he took of the Virgin? And yet thou saiest, it cannot be said, here is the place where the Son is not.
I answer: as the Son of God is also very man, so it may be said, here is the ⟨p. 19⟩place where he is not, and there is the place where he hath not been, though as he is God it is otherwise, let him that reads understand.