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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

Devil and the Wrath to come No Incouragement to Holiness like this like the Perswasion and Belief of this because this carrieth in it the greatest expression of Love that we are Capable of Hearing or Believing and there is nothing that worketh on us so Powerfully as Love And herein is Love not that we Loved God but that he Loved us and gave his Son to be the Propitiation for our Sins He then that by Faith can see that the Body of his Sin did hang upon the Cross b● the Body of Christ and that can see by that action Death and Sin the Devil and Hell destroyed for him 't is he that will say Bless the Lord O my Soul and all that is within me Bless his Holy Name c. Psa. 103. 1 2 3 4. Secondly Moreover the Knowledge of this giveth a man to understand this Mistery That Christ and himself are united in one For Faith saith If our Old man was Crucified with Christ then were we also Reckoned in him when he hanged on the Cross I am Crucified with Christ All the Elect did Mystically hang upon the Cross in Christ. We then are Dead to the Law and Sin First by the Body of Christ Rom. 7. 4. Now he that is Dead is free from Sin now if we be dead with Christ we Believe that we shall live with him knowing that Christ being raised from the Dead Dyeth no more Death hath no more Dominion over him for in that he dyed he dyed unto Sin once but in that he liveth he liveth unto God Likewise reckon your selves also dead unto Sin but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord. This also Peter doth lively Discourse of Forasmuch then saith he as Christ hath suffered for us in the Flesh Arm your selves likewise with the same mind for he that hath suffered in the Flesh hath ceased from Sin 1 Pet. 4. 1 2. By which Words he Insinuateth the Mystical Union that is between Christ the Head and the Elect his Body Arguing from the Suffering of a Part there should be a Sympathy in the whole If Christ then suffered for us we were even our Sins Bodies and Souls reckoned in him when he so suffered Wherefore by his sufferings the Wrath of God for us is appeased the Curse is taken from us For as Adam by his acts of Rebellion made all that were in him Guilty of his Wickedness so Christ by his acts and doings of Goodness and Justice made all that were reckoned in him good and Just also But as Adam's Transgression did First and immediately Reside with and remain in the Person of Adam onely and the Imputation of that Transgression to them that sprang from him so the Goodness and Justice that was accomplished by the Second Adam First and Immediately Resideth in him and is made over to his also by the Imputation of God But again As they that were in Adam stood not onely guilty of Sin by Imputation but Polluted by the Filth that Possessed him at his fall So the Children of the Second Adam do not onely though first stand Just by Vertue of the Imputation of the Personal acts of Justice and Goodness done by Christ but they also receive of that inward quality the Grace and Holiness that was in him at the Day of his rising from the Dead Thus therefore come we to be Holy by the Death and Blood of the Lord This also is the Contents of those other Scriptures which abusively you Cite to Justifie your Assertion to wit That the great Errand of Christ in coming into the World was to put us again into Possession of the Holiness which we had lost And that onely Designed the Establishing such a Holiness as is Sealed Originally in our Natures and Originally Dictates of the Humane Nature The rest of the Chapter being spoken to already I pass it and Proceed to the next Your Eighth Chapter tell us That it is onely the Promoting of the Design of making Men Holy that is Aimed at by the Apostles Insisting on the Doctrines of Christ's Resurrection Assention and coming again to Judgement Though this should be granted as indeed it ought not yet there is not one Sillable in all their Doctrines that tendeth in the least to drive Men back to the Possession of the Holiness we had lost which is still the thing Asserted by you and that for the Proof of which you make this noise and adoe Neither did Christ at all Design the Promoting of Holiness by such Principles as you have Asserted in your Book neither doth the Holy Spirit of God either help us in or excite us to our Duty Simply from such Natural Principles But the Apostles in these Doctrines you mention had far other Glorious Designs such as were truly Gospel and tended to strengthen our Faith yet farther As First For the Resurrection of Christ They Urge that as an Undeniable Argument of his doing away Sin by his Sacrificing and Death He was delivered for our Offences because he put himself into the Room and State of the Wicked as undertaking their Deliverance from Death and the Everlasting Wrath of God Now putting himself into their Condition he bears their Sin and dyes their Death but how shall we know that by undertaking this Work he did accomplish the thing he intended The answer is He was raised again for our Justification Rom. 4. 25. even to make it manifest that by the Offering of himself he had Purged our Sins from before the Face of God For in that he was raised again and that by him for the appeasing of whose Wrath he was delivered up to Death it is evident that the Work for us was by him effectually done For God raised him up again And hence it is that Paul calls the Resurrection of Christ the sure Mercies of David Act. 13. And as concerning that he raised him up from the Dead now no more to return to Corruption he saith on this wise I will give thee the sure Mercies of David For Christ having Conquered and overcome Death Sin the Devil and the Curse by himself as 't is manifest he did by his rising from the Dead what now remains for him for whom he did this but Mercy and Goodness for ever Wherefore the Resurrection of Christ is that which Sealeth the truth of our being delivered from the Wrath by his Blood Secondly As to his Ascention they urge and make use of that for divers weighty Reasons also 1. As a farther Testimony yet of the Sufficiency of his Righteousness to Justifie Sinners withal For if he that undertaketh the Work is yet entertained by him whose Wrath he was to appease thereby What is it but that he hath so compleated that Work Wherefore he saith that the Holy Ghost shall Convince the world that he hath a sufficient righteousness and that because he went to the Father John 16. And they saw him no more because he went he Ascended up to the Father was there

Doctrine being in it self of quite another Nature then the Doctrine of Faith and also as such a Covenant by it self it requireth the mind by vertue of it's Commands to stand to THAT and to rest in THAT For of necessity the heart and mind of a Man can go no farther then it seeth and hath learnt but by this Morral Doctrine the heart and mind is bound and limited to it self by the power of the Dictate to obedience and the promise of obtaining the Blessing when the preceptive part of it is fulfilled Hence Paul tells us that though that Ministration that was Written and Ingraven in Stones which in Nature is the same with this is glorious yet these imperfections attended the Man that was in it 1. He was but within the bounds of the Ministration of Death 2. In this estate he was blind and could not see how to be delivered therefrom The vail is over their h●art so that they could not heretofore neither can they now see to the end of that which was commanded neither to the perfection of the command nor their own insufficiency to do it nor to th● Death and Curse of God that attended him that in every thing continued not in that was Written in the Book of the Law to do them 3. Every Lecture or Reading of this Old Law is as a fresh Hood-winking of it's Disciples and a doubling of the hindrance of their coming to Christ for life But their minds were blinded for until this day the same Vail remaineth untaken away in reading of the Old Testament which Vail is done away in Christ But even unto this day when Moses is read the Vail is over their Hearts 2 Cor. 3. 6 to 15. And let the Reader note that all these things attend the Doctrine of Morrals the Ceremonies being in themselves more apt to instruct Men in the Knowledge of Christ they being by God's Ordaination Figures Shadows Representations and Emblems of him but the Morrals are not so neither as Written in our Natures nor as Written and Engraven in Stones Wherefore your so highly commended obedient temper of mind you intending thereby an hearty complyance before Faith with Morrals for Righteousness is so far off from being an excellent temper and a necessary qualification to help a Man to a firm belief and right understanding of the Gospel that it is the most ready way of all ways in the World to keep a man perpetually blind and ignorant thereof Wherefore the Apostle saith that the Vail the Ignorance cannot be taken away but when the Heart shall turn to the Lord that is from the Doctrine of Morrals as a Law and Covenant in our Natures or as it was Written and Ingraven in Stones to Christ for mercy to pardon our transgressions against it and for imputative Righteousness to Justifie us from it While Moses is Read the Vail is over the Heart that is while Men with their minds stand bending also to do it But mark when it the Heart shall turn to the Lord or to the Word of the Gospel which is the Revelation of him then the Vail shall be taken away And hence it will not be amiss if again we consider how the Holy Ghost compareth or setteth one against another these two Administrations The Law he calls the Letter even the Law of Morrals that Law that was Written and Engraven in Stones The other Ministration he calls the Ministration of the Spirit even that which Christ offered to the World upon believing Again he denyeth himself to be a Minister of the Law of Morrals He hath made us able Ministers of the New Testament no● of the Letter or Law but of the Spirit or Gospel The reason is for the Letter or Law can do nothing but kill Curse or Condemn but the Spirt or the Gospel giveth life Farther in comparing he calls the Law the Ministration of Death or that which layeth Death at the Doors of all Flesh but the Gospel the Ministration of Righteousness because by this Ministry there is a Revelation of that Righteousness that is fulfilled by the Person of Christ and to be imputed for Righteousness to them that believe that they might be delivered from the Ministration of death How then hath the Ministration of God no Glory Yes forasmuch as it is a Revelation of the Justice of God against Sin But yet again it 's Glory is turned into no Glory when it is compared with that which excelleth For if the Ministration of Death Written and Graven in the Stones was glorious so that the Children of Israel coul● not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the Glory of his countenanc● which Glory was to be done away how shall not the Ministratio● of the Spirit be rather Glorious For if the Ministration of Condemnation be Glory much more doth the Ministration of Righteousness exceed in Glory For even that which was made Glorious hath no Glory in this respect by reason of the Glory that excelleth 2 Cor. 3. 9 10. So then your obedient temper of mind forasmuch as it respecteth the Law of Morrals and that too before Faith or a right understanding of the Gospel is nothing else but an obedience to the Law a living to Death and the Ministration of Condemnation and is a perswading the World that to be obedient to that Ministration that is not the Ministration of the Gospel but holdeth it's Disciples in blindness and ignorance in which it is impossible Christ should be revealed is an excellent yea a necessary qualification to prepare Men for a firm belief and a right understanding of the Gospel of Christ which yet even blindeth and holdeth all blind that are the followers of that Ministration I come now to your Proof which indeed is no Proof of this Antigospel Assertion but Texts abused and wrestled out of their place to serve to underprop your erronious Doctrine The First is If any Man will do his will he shall know of the Doctrine whether it be of God or whether I speak of my self John 7. 17. P. 268. Answ. This Scripture respecteth not at all the Morral Law or obedience to the Dictates of Humane Nature as an acceptable qualification precedent to Faith or that for the sake of which God will give Men Faith in and a right understanding of the Gospel but is it self an immediate exhortation to believing with a promise of what shall follow as who shall say The Father hath sent me into the World to be Salvation to it through Faith in my Blood My Fathers will therefore is that Men believe in me and if any will do his will he shall know of the Doctrine he shall feel the power thereof by the peace and comfort that will presently possess the Soul and by the holy effects that follow That this is the true exposition of this place will be verified if you consider that to do the will of God in a New Testament sence is to be taken under a double