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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

you Mentioned the First though but once your Babel had tumbled about your Ears For if in the Holy Jesus did dwell the Word One of the Three in Heaven or if the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ was Truly Essentially and Naturally God then must the Principle from whence his Works did Proceed be better then the Principle from whence Proceeded the Goodness in Adam otherwise Adam must be God and Man Also you do or may know that the self same act may be done from several Principles And again that it is the Principle from whence the act is done and not the bare doing of the act that makes it better or worse Accepted or not in the Eyes either of God or Men. Now then to shew you the Main or Chief Design of the Life and Conversation of the Lord Jesus First It was not to shew us what an Excellent Holiness we once had in Adam But that thereby God the Eternal Majesty according to his Promise might be seen by and dwell with Mortal Men For the Godhead being altogether in it's own Nature Invisible and yet desirous to be seen by and dwell with the Children of Men therefore was the Son who is the self same Substance with the Father closed with or Tabernacled in our Flesh that in that Flesh the Nature and Glory of the Godhead might be seen by and dwell with us The Word was made Flesh and dwelt among us and we beheld his glory What Glory The Glory as of the onely Begotten of the Father full of Grace and Truth Again The Life that is the Life of God in the Works and Conversation of Christ was Manifest and we have seen it and bear Witness and shew unto you that Eternal Life which was with the Father and was Manifested unto us And hence he is called the Image of the Invisible God or he by whom the Invisible God is most perfectly presented to the Sons of Men. Did I say before that the God of Glory is desirous to be seen of us Even so also have the Pure in Heart a desire that it should be so Lord say they shew us the Father and it suffiseth us And therefore the promise is for their comfort that they shall see God But how then must they see him Why in the Person and by the Life and Works of Jesus When Philip under a mistake thought of seeing God some other way then in and by this Lord Jesus Christ What is the Answer Have I been so long time with you saith Christ and hast thou not known me Philip He that hath seen me hath seen the Father and how sayest thou then shew us the Father Believest thou not that I am in the Father and the Father in me The Words that I speak unto you I speak not of my self but the Father that dwelleth in me he doth the Works Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father in me or else Believe me for the very Works sake See here that both the Words and Works of the Lord Jesus were not to shew you and so to call you back to the Holiness that we had lost but to give us Visions of the Perfections that are in the Father He hath given us the Knowledge of the Glory of God in the Face of Jesus Christ. And hence it is that the Apostle in that brief Collection of the wonderful Mystery of Godliness placeth this in the Front thereof God was Manifested in the Flesh Was Manifested viz. In and by the Person of Christ when in the Flesh he lived among us Manifest I say for this as one Reason that the Pure in heart who long after nothing more might see him I beseech thee said Moses shew me thy Glory And will God indeed dwell with Men on the Earth faith Solomon Now to fullfil the desires of them that fear him hath he shewed himself in Flesh unto them which Discovery Principally is made by the Words and Works of Christ. But Secondly Christ by his Words and Works of Righteousness in the days of his Flesh neither shewed us which was nor called us back to the Possession of the Holiness that we had lost but did Perfect in and by himself the Law for us that we had Broken Man being Involved in Sin and Misery by reason of Transgression Committed against the Law or Ministration of Death and being utterly unable to Recover himself there-from the Son of God himself Assumeth the Flesh of Man and for Sin Condemned Sin in that Flesh. And that First by walking through the Power of his Eternal Spirit in the highest Perfection to every point of the whole Law in it's most Exact and full Requirements which was to be done not onely without Commixing Sin in his doing but by one that was perfectly without the least being of it in his Nature yea by one that now was God-Man because it was God whose Law was broken and whose Justice was offended For were it now possible to give a Man Possession of that Holiness that he hath lost in Adam that Holiness could neither in the Principle nor Act deliver from the Sin by him before Committed This is Evident by many Reasons First because it is not a Righteousness able to answer the Demands of the Law for Sin that requiring not onely a perfect abiding in the thing Commanded but a satisfaction by death for the Transgression Committed against the Law The Wages of Sin is Death Wherefore he that would undertake the Salvation of the World must be one who can do both these things One that can perfectly do the Demands of the Law in Thought Word and Deed without the least Commixture of the least Sinful thought in the whole Course of his Life He must be also able to give by Death even by the Death that hath the Curse of God in it a compleat satisfaction to the Law for the breach thereof Now this could none but Christ accomplish none else having Power to do it I have Power said he to lay down my Life and I have Power to take it again And this Commandment have I Received of my Father This Work then must be done not by another Earthly Adam but by the Lord from Heaven by one that can Abollish Sin Destroy the Devil Kill Death and Rule as Lord in Heaven and Earth Now the Words and Works of the Lord Jesus declared him to be such a one He was first without Sin then he did no Sin neither could either the Devil the whole World or the Law find any Deceit in his mouth But by being under the Law and walking in the Law by that Spirit which was the Lord God of the Law he not onely did always the things that pleased the Father but by that means in mans Flesh he did perfectly accomplish and fullfil that Law which all Flesh stood Condemned by It is a Foolish and an Heathenish thing nay worse to think that the Son of God

as is in Christ As is the earthly such are they that are earthly and as is the heavenly such are they that are heavenly Let then those that are the Sons of Adam in the state of nature as he though not so pure and spotless as he be reckoned to bear his image and similitude but let them that are the children of Christ though not so pure as he bear the image and similitude of Christ for they are conformable to the image of the Son of God The holiness therefore that was in Adam being but that which was natural earthly and not of the holy Ghost cannot be that which Christ came into the world to give us possession of Secondly Adam in his best and most sinless state was but a type of figure The figure of him that was to come A type in what A type or figure doubtless in his sinless and holy estate a type and figure of the holiness of Christ But if Christ should come from heaven to put us in possession of this sinless holiness that was in Adam or that we lost in him To what more would his work amount then to put us into the possession of a natural figurative shadowish righteousness or holiness But this he never intended therefore it is not the possessing of his people with that holiness that was the great errand Christ came into the world upon Thirdly The holiness and righteousness that was in and that we lost by Adam before the fall was such as stood in and was to be managed by his natural perfect compliance with a covenant of works For Do not this sin and die were the terms that was from God to Adam But Christ at his coming brings in another a better a blessed Covenant of Grace and likewise possesseth his Children with the Holiness and Priviledges of that Covenant Not with Adams heart nor Adams mind but a new Heart a new Spirit a new Principle to act by and walk in a new Covenant Therefore the Holiness that was in Adam before or that we lost in him by the Fall could not be the Holiness that Christ at his Coming made it his great or onely business to put us in possession of Fourthly The Holiness that was in Adam before and that we lost in him by the Fall was such as might stand with perfect ignorance of the Mediation of Jesus Christ For Christ was not made known to Adam as a Saviour before that Adam was a Sinner neither needed he at all to know him to be his Mediator before he knew he had offended But Christ did not come-into the World to establish us in or give us possession of such Holiness as might stand with perfect Ignorance of his Mediatorship No The Holiness that we Believers have and the righteous acts that we fulfil● they come to us and are done by us through the knowledge of the Lord Jesus and of his being the Messias promised Fifthly The Holiness that was in Adam was neither given him through the Promise neither encouraged by the Promise Adam had no promise to possess him with a Principle of holiness it came to him by Creation neither had he any promise to strengthen or encourage him in Holiness All he ●id was Instructions concerning his Duty and Death threatned if he did it not But Christ came not to give us possession of an holyness or Righteousness that came to us by our Creation without a Promise and that hath no promise to encourage us to continue therein but of an Holiness that comes to us by the best of Promises and that we are encouraged to by the best of Promises Therefore it was not his great Errand when he came from Heaven to Earth to put us in possession of that Promiseless holiness that Adam had before and that was lost in him by the Fall Lastly In a word The Holiness that Adam had before and that we lost in him by the Fall it was a natural shadowish old Covenant promiseless holiness such as stood and might he walked in while he stood perfectly ignorant of the Mediator Christ. Wherefore it is rather the Design of your Apollo the Devil whom in Page 101. you bring forth to applaud your Righteousness I say it is rather his Design then Christ to put men upon an indeavour after a possession of that For that which is truely Evangelical is the Spiritual Substantial New Covenant promised holiness that which cometh to us by and standeth in the Spirit Faith and Knowledge of the Son of God not that which we lost in Adam Wherefore the Song which there you learnt of the Devil is true in the sense he made it and in the sense for which you bring it which is to beget in men the highest esteem of their own humane nature and to set up this natural shadowish promiseless ignorant holiness in opposition to that which is truely Christs To dwell in Heaven doth not more please him then Within the Souls of Pious mortal Men. This is the Song but you find it not in Matthew Mark Luke or John but among the Heathens who were his Disciples and who were wont to enquire at his mouth and learn of him Thus have I Ra●●d the foundation of your Book even by overthrowing the Holiness and Righteousness which by you is set up as that which is the onely true Gospel and Evangelical Wherefore it remaineth that the rest of your Book viz. whatever therein is brought and urged for the proof of this your Description of Holiness c. it is but the abuse of Christ of Scripture and Reason it is but a wresting and corrupting of the Word of God both to your own destruction and them that believe you But to pass this and to come to some other passages in your Book And first to that in Page 5 th where you say The Holiness which is the Design of the Religion of Christ Jesus is not such as is subjected in any thing without us or is made ours by a meer external or outward application c. 1. These words secretly smite at the Justification that comes by the imputation of that most glorious Righteousness that alone resideth in the Person of the Lord Jesus and that is made ours by an act of eternal Grace we resting upon it by the Faith of Jesus 2. But if the Holiness of which you speak be not subjected to any thing without us then it is not of all that fulness which it pleased the Father should dwell in Christ For the Holiness and Righteousness even the inward Holiness that is in Saints it is none other then that which dwelleth in the Person of the Son of God in Heaven Neither doth any man partake of or enjoy the least measure thereof but as he is united by Faith to this Son of God The thing is as true in him in us in him as the Head and without measure and is originally seated in him not in us