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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

also Fundamental truths of the Christian Religion as I do heartily believe let all Men know that I quarrel not with him about things wherein I discent from the Church of England but do contend for the truth continued even in these very Articles of theirs from which he hath so deeply revolted that he clasheth with every one of them as may farther be shewn when he shall take heart to reply But to wind up this unpleasant Scrible I shall have done when I have farther shewed how he joyneth with Papist and Quaker against these wholsome and Fundamental Articles Mr. Fowler 's Doctrine compared with Campian the Jesuite upon that question whether Faith onely Justifieth saith Campian 1. Campian We Papists say that as Grace is put into us in Justification so also our Righteousness is inlarged through Good Works and is inherent in us therefore it is not true that God doth Justifie by Faith ONELY Fowler Pag. 221. Justifying Faith is such a belief of the truth of the Gospel as includeth a sincere resolution of obedience unto all its Precepts and that it justifieth AS it doth SO In short is it possible that Faith in Christs Blood for the forgiveness of Sin should be the onely act which justifieth a Sinner 2. Campian So that Faith is urged but not Faith ONELY again by Faith is meant all Christianity and the whole Religion of Christians Fowler Pag. 222. For surely the Faith which intaileth the Sinner to so high a Priviledge as that of justification must needs be such as complyeth with all the purposes of Christ's coming into the World especially with his grand purpose as Lord and that it is no less necessary that it should justifie as it doth this 3. Campian Though Works void of Christ are nothing yet through Grace they serve to Justification Fowler Pag. 225. 226. Of the Imputation of Christ's Righteousness this is the true Explication It consisteth in dealing with sincerely Righteous Persons as if they were perfectly so for the sake and upon the account of Christ's Righteousness The grand intent of the Gospel being to make us partakers of an inward real Righteousness and it being a Secondary one that we should be accepted and rewarded as if we were compleatly Righteous 4. Campian Speaking of Faith Hope and Charity he confesseth that Faith in Nature is before them but it doth not Justifie before they come Fowler Pag. 223. What pretence can there be for thinking that Faith is the condition or Instrument of Justification as it complyeth with onely the Precept of relying on Christ's Merits for the obtaining of it especially when it is no less manifest then the Sun at Noon Day that obedience to the other Precepts or Works of Love must go before obedience to this 5. Campian I deny that Faith ONELY doth Justifie for you have not in all the Word of God that Faith ONELY doth Justifie Fowler Pag. 225. And for my part I must confess that I would not willingly be he that should undertake to Encounter one of the Champions of that foul Cause with the Admission of this Principle That Faith Justifieth onely as it apprehendeth resteth or relyeth on Pag. 224. the Merits and Righteousness of Jesus Christ I must certainly have great luck or my Adversary but little Cunning if I were not forced to repent me of such an engagement 6. Campian Abraham being a Just Man was made more Just by a living Faith Fowler Pag. 283. He onely is a true Child of Abraham who in the Purity of the Heart obeyeth those substantial Laws that are imposed by God upon him 7. Campian I say that Charity and good Work are not excluded in the causes of ruo Justification Fowler Pag. 215. For we have shewn not onely that Reformation from the practice and purification of Heart from the liking of Sin are as plainly as can be asserted in the Gospel to be absolutely necessary to give Men a right to the Promises of it but also that its great Salvation doth even consist in it Mr. Fowler 's Doctrine compared with William Pen the Quaker 1. Pen's Sandy Foundation Pag. 19. Life and Salvation is to them that follow Christ the Light in all his Righteousness which every man comes onely to experience as he walks in a holy Subjection to that measure of Light and Grace wherewith the fulness hath inlightned him Fowler Pag. 8. That is those which are of an indispensible and Eternal Obligation which were first written in mens hearts and Originally Dictates of Humane Nature 2. Pen Pag. 32. I really confess that Jesus Christ fullfilled the Fathers Will and offered up a most satisfactory Sacrifice but not to pay God or help him to save Men. Fowler Pag. 85. Christ was set forth to be a Propitiatory Sacrifice for Sin I will not say that his Father who is perfectly sui Puris might be put by this means into a Capacity of forgiving it 3. Pen Pag. 16. God's Remission is grounded on Man's Repentance no tthat it 's impossible for God to pardon without a Plenary Satisfaction Fowler Pag. 84. There are many that do not question but that God could have pardoned Sin without any other satisfaction then the Repentance of the Sinner c. 4. Pen Pag. 27. Justification doth not go before but is subsequential to the Mortification of Lusts. Fowler Pag. 14 15. This Blessing of making Men Holy was so much the design of Christ's coming that he had his very Name from it Observe the Words He shall save his People from their Sins not from the punishment of them c. And that is the Primary sence of them which is most plainly expressed in them That he shall save his People from the punishment of Sin is a true sence too but it is Secondary and implyed onely as this latter is the never failing and necessary consequence of the former Salvation 5. Pen Pag. 25. Since therefore there can be no admittance had without performing that Righteous Will and doing those Holy and Perfect sayings Alas to what value will an imputative Righteousness amount c. Fowler Pag. 16. Christ shall bring in an inward substantial and everlasting Righteousness and by abrogating the outward Ceremonial and establishing ONELY this Righteousness he should inlarge the Jewish Church an accession of the Gentiles being by that means made unto it 6. Pen Pag. 24 25. Since God hath prescribed an inoffensive life as that which onely can give acceptance with him and on the contrary hath determined not to justifie the Wicked c. Will not the abomination appear greatest of all when God shall be found Condemning the just on purpose to justifie the wicked and that he is thereto compelled or else no Salvation which is the tendency of their Doctrine who imagine the Righteous and merciful God to condemn and punish his righteous Son that he being sanctified for our Sins we might be justified while unsatisfied by the imputation of his perfect Righteousness O why should

to acquire that inward Righteousness and Holiness which the Christian Religion Aimeth at but the Particulars of these say you I shall not enumerate because as will appear from what will be said anon it is not needful to have a just table of them Answ. Deep Divinity First They are such as without the Knowledge and Belief of them it is not possible we should acquire your true Holiness and yet for all that it is not needful that we be told what they are or that we should have a just Table of them Secondly But if they be things necessary things without the Knowledge of which it is impossible we should be truly Holy then is it needful that we understand what they are Yea then is it needful that they be written and presented one by one unto us that our Knowledge of them being distinct and full we may the better be able to obtain or acquire your Glorious so pretended Holiness But I know your Primary Fundamentals they are your first Principles of Morrals not Faith in the Righteousness of Christ for that is comprehended in your possitive and in themselves indifferent things Your Morrals are the things in themselves absolutely necessary of an indispensible and Eternal Obligation Pag. 8 9. But Secondly you tell us of Points of Faith that are Secondarily Fundamental the disbelief of which cannot consist with true Holiness in those to whom the Gospel is sufficiently made known Answ. The Secondary Fundamentals also are all kept close and hid and not otherwise to be understood but by implication however the disbelief of these is not of so sad a consequence as is that of the former because say you They are not in their own Nature Holiness Pag. 235. Yea he insinuateth that the disbelief of them may stand with true Holiness in those to whom the Gospel is not sufficiently made known Of these Secondary Fundamentals therefore whatever is their number this is one even coming to God by Christ for as in Page 7 and 9. he calleth it a Possitive Precept a thing that in it self is neither good nor evil so here he speaks of such as are not in their own Nature Holy not such as that Holiness is not in some degree or other attainable without the belief of them That one of these Secondary Fundamentals is intended by Mr. Fowler that of coming to God by Christ I farther gather because ●e saith that in the number of these are all such Doctrines as are with indisputable clearness revealed to us that is by the Holy Scriptures of the New Testament Pag. 235. For therein is this Revealed to be a Fundamental but he saith not a Primary one because that in it self it is but indifferent and not in it's own Nature good Now the belief of these saith he though it is not in it self any more then in higher or lower degrees profitable Confusion Darkness Confusion yet it is absolutely necessary from an External cause That is with such abundant clearness as that nothing can cause men to refuse to admit them but that which argueth them to be stark naught Answ. 1. Then hence it seems that the reason why you admit these Secondary sort of Fundamentals is not from any Internal Power but an External Declaration onely 2. Nay and you do but ADMIT them neither and that too for some External cause not because of the worthiness of the Nature of the points themselves 3. And were it not but that you are loath to be counted stark naught in the eyes of Men so far as I can descern you would not at all make profession of them with pretence as unto God For say you We must take notice here that all such Points viz. these Fundamentals are not of equal necessity to be received by all Christians because that in regard of the Diversity of their Capacities Education and other means and advantages some of them may be most plainly perceived by some to be delivered in the Scriptures which cannot be so by others with the like ease Answ. From these words I take notice of four things 1. That by this Universal all Christians is Comprehended the Heathen and Pagan People that give heed to and mind to follow that light that Originally and Naturally stirreth them to Morral Duties These be they that want the Education and Vantages of other and are not in such a Capacity as they to whom these things are delivered by the Scriptures 2. That this People notwithstanding they want a Scripture Revelation of these Secondary Fundamentals yet have the more necessary the first sort of Fundamentals For the secondary sort say you are not in their own Nature such as that Holiness is not in some degree or other attainable without the belief of them 3. That therefore these Secondary sort of Fundamentals are onely necessary to be believed by them that have the indisputable the Scripture Revelation of them and that in truth the others may be saved without them 4. But yet even those that are made capable by education and other advantages to obtain the belief of them ought notwithstanding not to have the same respect for them as for those of the first sort of Fundamentals because they are not in their own Nature such But will this man know that Christ is not onely a Fundamental but the very foundation of all other Fundamental truths revealed both in the Old Testament and the New and that his pure Humane Nature with the Dictates of it with his feigned Adamitish Holiness is no Fundamental at all I mean no Fundamental of Faith no Gospel Fundamental 1 Co. 3. 14. Eph. 2. 19 20. Yea will he know that from Heaven there is none other Name given then the Name of Jesus Christ whereby we must be saved none other Name given under the whole Heavens Act. 4. 12. Oh the Witchcrafts by which some Mens Spirits are Intoxicated and the strength of delusion by which some are infatuate and turned aside from the simplicity that is in Jesus Christ But I proceed Your great Question or rather Urim and Thummim by which you would have all men make Judgement of their saveable or damnable state Pag. 236. is according to your description of things most Devilish and Destructive For to obey God and Christ in all things with you is to do it from Principles purely Humane in the Faith of this that Christ hath designed to possess us again with that Holiness we had lost Again to obey God and Christ with you is so to obey all their Laws as respecting the first Principles of Morrals and our obedience to them far more indispensible then that of coming to God by Christ. Farther he that obeys them in all things with your directions must not look upon Faith in the Blood of Christ and Justification by his Righteousness as the main and first but the second part of our duty other Commands or Precepts more naturally Holy and Good first being imbraced and lived in the practise of