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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 first, a right saving faith, is, for a man to be enabled of God's holy Spirit, to lay hold on what the man Christ hath done in his own person, when he was in the world; as his birth, righteousness, death, blood, resurrection, ascension and intercession; and to apply the virtue and merit thereof to himself, so as to see himself saved thereby, Rom. 3.24, 25. Being justified freely by his grace: How? Even through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus. Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation, or reconciler, through faith in his blood, &c. Again, Be it known unto you, that through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins, and by him all that believe: mark, all that believe (namely, in his blood which was shed on mouth Calvary) are justified from all things, from which they could not be justified by the Law of Moses. 1If the faith that applies these thing be of the operation of God, it is very much accompanied with good works. For the love of Christ constrains us: because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead. And that he died for all, that we which live (namely by the faith of this, that Christ died for all, Gal. 2.20.) should not henceforth live to our selves, but to him, that died for us, 2 Cor. 5.14, 15.
And first, a right saving faith, is, for a man to be enabled of God's holy Spirit, to lay hold on what the man Christ hath done in his own person, when he was in the world; as his birth, righteousnesse, death, blood, resurrection, ascension and intercession; and to apply the virtue and merit thereof to himself, so as to see himself saved thereby, Rom. 3.24, 25. Being justified freely by his grace: How? Even through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus. Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation, or reconciler, through faith in his blood, &c. Again, Be it known unto you, that through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins, and by him all that believe: mark, all that believe (namely, in his blood which was shed on mout Calvary) are justified from all things, from which they could not be justified by the Law of Moses.