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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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Other things thou doest quarrel against, but seeing they are in effect the same with the former; I pass them by, and shall come to the next thing thou doest think to catch me withal, and that is; because I say, that God only is the Saviour, there is none besides him. Therefore sayest thou, how contrary is this to that in page 24. where I say, how wickedly are they deluded, who own Christ no otherwise then as he was before the world began. Now this is no contradiction as thou wouldest have it; for though I say there is none but God our Saviour. Yet I did also then in my book, show how he was our Saviour, namely; in that he came into the world, being born of a Virgin, made under the law, that he might redeem them that were under the law, by his obedience in that nature, by suffering in that nature, by his rising ⟨p. 32⟩again in that nature, and by carrying that nature into heaven with him, as the Scriptures at large declare; and therefore though I say God is our Saviour, and none besides he; yet they that own him to be the Saviour no otherwise then as he was before the world began, are such as deny that he is come in the flesh, and so are of Antichrist, 1 Joh. 2. For before God could actually be a Saviour, he must partake of another nature then the divine; even the nature of man, Heb. 2.14.15.
Other things thou doest quarrell against, but seeing they are in effect the same with the former; I pass them by, and shall come to the next thing thou doest think to catch me withall, and that is; because I say, that God only is the Saviour, there is none besides him. Therefore sayest thou, how contrary is this to that in page 24. where I say, how wickedly are they deluded, who owne Christ no otherwise then as he was before the world began. Now this is no contradiction as thou wouldest have it; for though I say there is none but God our Saviour. Yet I did also then in my book, shew how he was our Saviour, namely; in that he came into the world, being born of a Virgin, made under the law, that he might redeem them that were under the law, by his obedience in that nature, by suffering in that nature, by his rising ⟨p. 32⟩again in that nature, and by carrying that nature into heaven with him, as the Scriptures at large declare; and therefore though I say God is our Saviour, and none besides he; yet they that owne him to be the Saviour no otherwise then as he was before the world began, are such as deny that he is come in the flesh, and so are of Antichrist,