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A30137	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.	Bunyan, John, 1628-1688.	1673 (1673)	Wing B5508; ESTC R215886	107,458	132

him should not Perish but have Everlasting Life John 3. God SO Loved that he gave his Son to be SO great Salvation Now as is expressed in the Text to be the better for this Salvation is to give heed to hear it for Faith cometh by hearing He saith not give heed to doing but to the Word you have HEARD Faith I say cometh by Hearing and Hearing by the Word of God Rom. 10. But that this hearing is the hearing of Faith is farther Evident 1. Because he speaketh of a great Salvation accomplished by the Love of God in Christ accomplished by his Blood By his own Blood he entred into Heaven it self having Obtained Eternal Redemption for us Heb. 9. 2. This Salvation is set in Opposition to that which was Propounded before by the Ministration of Angels which Consisted in a Law of Works that which Moses received to give to the Children of Israel For the Law a command to Works and Duties was given by Moses but Grace and Truth came by Jesus Christ. To live by doing Works is the Doctrine of the Law and Moses but to live by Faith and Grace is the Doctrine of Christ and the Gospel Besides the threatning being pressed with an HOW shall we escape Respects still a Better a Freer a more Gracious Way of Life then either the Morral or Ceremonial Law for both these were long before but here comes in another Way not that Propounded by Moses or the Angels but since by the Lord himself How shall we escape if we neglect so great Salvation which at First began to be spoken by the Lord and was Confirmed to us by then that heard him Now Mark It is this Salvation this SO great and Eternal Salvation that was obtained by the Blood of the Lord himself It was this even to Confirm Faith in this that the God of Heaven himself came down to Confirm by Signs and Wonders God bearing them Witness both with Signs and Wonders and with divers Miracles and Gifts of the Holy Ghost according to his own Will Thus we see that to establish a Holiness that came from the First Principles of Morrals in us or that ariseth from the Dictates of our Humane Nature or to drive us back to that Figurative Holiness that we had once but lost in Adam is little thought on by Jesus Christ and as little intended by any of the Gospel Miracles A Word or two more The Tribute Money you mention Pag. 72. was not as you would clawingly Insinuate for no other Purpose then to shew Christs Loyalty to the Magistrate But First and above all to shew his Godhead to Confirm his Gospel and then to shew his Loyalty the which Sir the Persons you secretly smite at have respect for as much as you Again Also the Curse of the Barren Fig-Tree mentioned Pag. 73. was not if the Lord himself may be believed to give us an Emblem of a Person void of good Works but to shew his Disciples the Power of Faith and what a wonder-working thing that blessed Grace is Wherefore when the Disciples wondred at that sudden Blast that was upon the Tree Jesus answered not Behold and Emblem of one void of Morral Vertues but Verily I say unto you if you have Faith and doubt not ye shall not onely do this which is done to the Fig-Tree but also if you shall say unto this Mountain be thou removed and be thou cast into the Sea it shall be done and all things whatsoever ye shall ask in Prayer Believing ye shall Receive Again Mark saith When Peter saw the Fig-tree that the Lord had Cursed dryed up from the Roots he said to his Master Behold the Fig-tree which thou Cursed'st is withered away Christ now doth not say as you this Tree was an Emblem of a Professor void of good Works but Have Faith in or the Faith of God For verily I say unto you whosoever shall say unto this Mountain Be thou removed and be thou cast into the Sea and shall not doubt in his Heart but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass he shall have whatsoever he saith Therefore I say unto you what things soever you desire when you pray believe that you receive them and you shall have them Mat. 21. Mark 11. Christ Jesus therefore had a higher and a better end then that which you propound in his cursing the Barren Fig-tree even to shew as himself Expounds it the mighty power of Faith and how it lays hold of things in Heaven and tumbleth before it things on Earth Wherefore your Scriptureless Exposition doth but lay you even Solomen's Proverb The Legs of the Lawe are not equal c. I might Inlarge but enough of this Onely here I add that the Wonders and Miracles that attend the Gospel were wrought and are Recorded to perswade to Faith in Christ By Faith in Christ men are Justified from the Curse and Judgement of the Law This Faith worketh by Love by the Love of God it brings up the Heart to God and Goodness but not by your Covenant not by Principles of Humane Nature but of the Spirit of God not in a Poor Legal Old Covenant Promiseless Ignorant Shadowish Natural Holiness but by the Holy Ghost I come now to your Seventh Chapter but to that I have spoken briefly already and therefore here shall be the shorter In this Chapter you say Christ's Death Answ. But not with your Described Principles of Humanity and Dictates of Humane Nature He Designed not as I have fully proved neither by his Death nor Life to put us into a Possession of the Holiness which we had lost though the Proof of that be the business of your Book 2. To make men holy was Doubtless Designed by the Death and Blood of Christ But the way and manner of the Proceeding of the Holy Ghost therein you write not of although the First Text you mention Pag. 78. 79. doth fairly present you with it For the way to make men inwardly Holy by the Death and Blood of Christ is First to Possess them with the Knowledge of this that their Sins were Crucified with him or that he did bear them in his Body on the Tree Knowing this that our Old Man is Crucified with him that the body of Sin might be Destroyed that henceforth we should not serve Sin Rom. 6. 6. So he dyed for all that they that live should not henceforth live unto themselves as you would have them nor to the Law or Dictates of their own Nature as your Doctrine would perswade them but to him that dyed for them and rose again There are two things in the right stating of the Doctrine of the Effects of the Death and Blood of Christ that do Naturally Effect in us an Holy Principle and also a life becoming such a Mercy First For that by it we are set at liberty by Faith therein from the Guilt and Curse that is due to Guilt from Death the

us insignificant if it stand without Faith in himself Ye believe naturally in God saith he Believe also in me Faith in Jesus is as absolutely necessary as to believe immediately in the Divine being Yea without Faith in Jesus whosoever believeth in God is sure to perish and burn in Hell If you believe not that I am he ye shall dye in your Sins And to take Jesus in Morrals for example is no where called believing in him neither is there one promise of eternal life annexed to such a practice But you say If we tread in his blessed steps and be such according to our measure and capacity as we have understood he was in this World Answ. I say for a Man to confine himself onely to the life of the Lord Jesus for an example or to think it enough to make him in his life a pattern for us to follow leaveth us through our shortness in the end with the Devil and his Angels for want of Faith in the Doctrine of Remission of Sins For Christ did no where make another Mediator between God and him nor did he ever trust to another Man's Righteousness to be thereby Justified from the Curse of the Law neither did he at all stand in need thereof without which WE must be Damned and Perish Now I say these things being no where practiced by him he cannot therein be an example to us And I say again seeing that in these things by Faith in them is immediately wrapped up our Reconciliation with God it followeth that though a Man take the Lord Christ in his whole life for an example in the end that notwithstanding he abideth unreconciled to God Neither will that clause and be such help such a person at all For Justification with God comes not by imitating Christ as exemplary in Morrals but through Faith in his Precious Blood In the Law I read that the Paschal Lamb was neither to be eaten Sodden nor Raw but Roast with fire must it be eaten Exod. 12. Now to make Salvation Principally to depend upon imitating Christ's Life it is to feed upon him Raw or at most as Sodden or Sanctified and Holy But the precept is Eat it Roast with fire is the Antitype as accursed of God for Sin and induring the punishment for it The Law is compared to fire and it's Curse to a burning Oven Now under the Curse of this fiery Law was the Lord Jesus afflicted for the Sins of the World Wherefore as so considered our Faith must lay hold upon him for Justification with God This is the Law of the Burnt Offering which was the Offering for Sin It is the Burnt Offering because of the burning upon the Altar all night unto the morning and the fire of the Altar shall be burning in it Levit. 6. 9. But now I would inquire Had Israel done the Commandment if they had eaten the Passover Raw or Boiled in Water or if they had offered that Offering that was to be burnt as a Sin Offering otherwise then it was commanded Even so to feed upon Christ as he is Holy and of good life onely and also as taking him therein for an example to us to follow his steps for Justification with God this is to eat the Passover Raw and not as Rost with Fire this is to feed upon Jesus without respecting him as accursed of God for our Sin and so consequently to miss of that eternal life that by his Blood he hath obtained for every one that believeth on him I have been pleased with this observation that none of the Signs and Wonders in Aegypt could deliver the Children of Israel thence till the Lamb was slain and Roast with fire Exod. 12. 1. And I have been also pleased with this that the Father not Moses gave the Manna from Heaven which was a Type of the Flesh and Blood of Christ that whoso feedeth on shall live for ever John 6. 32. Yea Circumcision also which was a Type of inward and Heart-Holiness was not of Moses but of the Fathers and Principally a consequence of the Faith of Abraham John 7. 22. Whence I gather That no Wonder but the Blood of Christ can save That no Kindess but the Mercy of God can give this to us And that no Law but the Law of Faith can make us truly Holy in heart But you add Those that sincerely and industrously indeavour to imitate the Holy Jesus in his Spirit and Actions can never be ignorant what it is to be truly Christians Those that follow Jesus in his Spirit must first receive that Spirit from Heaven which Spirit is received as I have often said by applying first by Faith the Merits of Christ to the Soul for Life and Justification with God The Spirit is not received by the Works of the Law but by the hearing of Faith neither comes it in the Ministry or Doctrine of Morrals but in and by the Ministry of Faith and the Law is NOT of Faith Wherefore seeing you have in Page 223. of your Book forbidden Sinners to come first to Jesus for Justification with God the Spirit you talk of however you call it the Spirit Jesus can be no other then the Spirit of a Man which you also your self in Pag. 7 8 9. call the Purity of Humane Nature a Principle of Reason the first Principles of Morrals or those that are Originally Dictates of Humane Nature Wherefore by these Words in his Spirit you do but Blaspheme the Holy Ghost and abuse your ignorant Reader calling now Quaker-like the Dictates of your Humanity and your Socinian Complyances therewith the Spirit of Holy Jesus I conclude therefore that the way of Salvation or the design of Christianity as prescribed by you is none other then the Errors of your own brain the way of Death the Sum and Heart of Papistical Quakerism and is quite denyed by the Lord Jesus and by his blessed Testament And now go your ways and imitate the Lord Jesus and take the whole History of his life for your example and walk in his steps and be such as much as you can yet without Faith in his Blood first yea and if you stand not Just before God through the imputation of his Righteousness your imitating will be found no better then rebellion because by that instead of Faith in his Blood you hope to obtain remission of Sins thrusting him thereby from his Office and Work and setting your dunghil Righteousness up in his stead I come now to Your Conclusion First in Page 198. You pr●se men to betake themselves to find that which you call the design of Christianity accomplished in their hearts and lives Answ. Seeing that the Holiness that your erronious Book hath exalted is none other but THAT which we have LOST Yea and again seeing you have set this in the Head of and before the the Righteousness of Christ I admonish my Reader to tremble at the Blasphemy of your Book and account the whole