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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

Created or made Thirdly The Law also which you call Divine Moral and Eternal is that which is naturally seated in the Heart and as you your self express it is originally the Dictates of humane Nature or that which Mankind doth naturally assent to Page 11. Now I say that a man cannot by these Principles and these qualifications please the God of Heaven is apparent 1. Because none of these are Faith but without Faith it is impossible to please him Heb. 11. 6. 2. Because none of these is the Holy Ghost but there is nothing accepted of God under a New Testament consideration but those which are the fruits of the Spirit Gal. 5. 22. 3. The Man and Principles you have stated may be such as are utterly Ignorant of Jesus Christ and of all his New Testament things as such But the Natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God the things of his New Testament for they are foolishness to him neither can he know them because they are Spiritually discerned 1 Cor. 2. 24. 4. Your qualifications and considerations know nothing at all of the adoption of Sons and of our acting and doing our Duty as such You only content your self to rest within the confines of the humane Nature acts of reason as men or Creatures only or in their supposed pure natural Principles And Sir a little by way of digression I will tell you also of our truly Christian righteousness both as to its original or first Principle and also how or under what capacity it puts the Person that is acted by it First The Principle which is laid within us it is not the purity of the humane Nature but of the Holy Ghost it self which we have of God received by believing in the Son of God a principle as far above yours of Humanity as is the Heavens above the Earth yours being but like those of the first Adam but ours truly those of the second As is the Earthly such are those that are Earthly and as is the Heavenly such are those that are Heavenly Now whosoever hath not this Principle although he be a Creature and also have the Dictates of the humane Nature yea and also follows them yet he is not Christs If any man have not the Spirit of Christ he is none of his Thus therefore is the Christian Principle another from and far above your Heathenish Pagan one By 〈◊〉 is Spirit is the Christian qualified with Principles not N●●ural but Spiritual such as Faith Hope Joy Peace c. all which are the fruits of the Revelation of the forgiveness of sins freely by Grace though the Redemption that it in Jesus Christ In this Spirit and Faith we walk by this Spirit we are led even into the Joy and Peace of the New Testament of our Lord wherefore our Holy Actions are the fruits of Righteousness that is by Jesus Christ not by our humane Nature or the purity of it in us yea they are the fruits of the Spirit of God the qualifications that attend the new Covenant and those that by the work of regeneration are brought within the bounds and Priviledges thereof Wherefore Secondly The capacity that we are in who act and do from the Heavenly Principle it is that of Sons the Sons of God by adoption as the Apostle said Because ye are Sons God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your Hearts crying Abba Father And again As many as are led by the Spirit of God they are the Sons of God This is a far other then is your humane description of acting as a Creature indued with a Principle of Reason for here is a man acts as a Son indued with the Holy Spirit of God who hath before the World was predestinated him to this Estate by Jesus Christ to himself As a Son therefore the Christian acts and does because he is indued with that high and heavenly Principle mentioned before by which Principle this man hath received a new Heart a new Spirit a new understanding a good Conscience so made by Faith in the blood of the Lord Jesus Thus being made again anew and another man he acts from a new and another Principle then yours a Principle as far beyond and above you as is a Man above a Bruit and as is Grace above Nature Thirdly As the Christian acts does from a better Principle and under a better capacity or consideration then that you have described so to allude to your own notion the first Principles by which they receive this Spirit and Adoption are not those Principles of Morals or those originally dictates of humane Nature but it is through the hearing of Faith Gal. 3. 1 2 3. by which we understand that the Son of God became a Man dyed for our sins hath saved us from the curse of God and accounted us to be the righteousness of God in him this being heard with the Gospel and a new-Testament hearing the Holy Ghost forthwith possesseth us by the glorious working whereof we are helped through the Son to call the God of Heaven our Father Now thus being made free from sin by the only Faith of Jesus Christ we have our fruit unto holiness and the end everlasting life And here come in those reasonable conclusions which you would make the very radicals of Christianity they being only remote and after conclusions drawn from the forementioned Mercy of God viz. from predestination Calling Adoption and Justification by Christs Blood sinners I say these are the things which Paul endeavored to provoke the Romans Philippians and Colossians to an Holy Conversation by 1. To the Romans I beseech you therefore saith he by the Mercies of God What Mercies Why those of Election Redemption Calling Justification and Adoption mentioned in the foregoing Chapters that you present your Bodies a living Sacrifice Holy acceptable to God which is your reasonable service Rev. 12. 1. 2. To the Philippians If there be therefore any consolation in Christ if any Comfort of Love if any fellowship of the Spirit if any Bowels and Mercies fulfill ye my joy that ye be like minded Phil. 2. 1. 3. To the Colossians If you be risen with Christ seek those things that are above where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God set your affections on things above not on things of the Earth for you are dead and your life is hid with Christ in God when Christ who is our life shall appear then shall ye also appear with him in Glory Now mark mortifie therefore therefore wherefore why because they were risen with Christ because they should appear at the end of this World with Christ himself in Glory therefore mortifie the deeds of the Body or our Members that are upon the Earth Col. 3. 1 2 3 4 5. These Sir are the Motives by which we Christians act because we are forgiven because we are Sons and if Sons then Heirs and so we act

stated by you being the principles and the goodness of this World and such as have not faith but the law not the holy Ghost but humane nature in them they cannot be those which you affirm was or is the design the great the only and ultimate design of Christ or his Gospel to promote and propagate in the World neither with respect to our justification before God from the curse neither with respect to the workings of his Spirit and the faith of Jesus in our hearts the true Gospel or evangelical Holiness First It is not the righteousness that justifieth us before God from the curse because it is that which is properly our own and acted and managed by principles of our own arising originally in the roots of it from our own There is the righteousness of Men and the righteousness of God that which is the righteousness of Men is that which we do work from matter and principles of our own but that which is the righteousness of God is that which is wrought from matter and principles purely Divine and of the Nature of God Again that which is our own righteousness is that which is wrought in and by our own persons as Men but that which is the righteousness of God is that which is wrought in and by the second person in the Trinity as God and Man in one person and that resideth onely in that person of the Son I speak now of the righteousness by which we stand just before God from the curse of the Law Now this righteousness of ours our own righteousness the Apostle always opposeth to the righteousness of God saying They going about to establish their OWN righteousness have not submitted themselves to the righteousness of God Farther This righteousness of our own Paul counts loss and dogs-meat in comparison of that other far more glorious righteousness which he calleth as it is in truth the righteousness of God which as I said but now resideth in the person of the Son Therefore saith Paul I cast away my own righteousness and do count it loss and but dung that I may win Christ and be found in him not having my own righteousness which is of the law but that which is through the faith of Christ the righteousness which is of God by faith The righteousness therefore that is our own that ariseth from matter and principles of our own such as that which you have described justifieth us not before God from the curse Secondly The righteousness that you have described justifieth us not as before because it is the righteousness which is of the moral law that is it is wrought by us as walking in the law Now it mattereth not whether you respect the law in its first principles or as it is revealed in the table of the ten Commandments they are in nature but one and the same and their substance and matter is written in our Hearts as we are Men. Now this righteousness the Apostle casteth away as was shewed before not having mine own righteousness saith he which is of the law why Because the righteousness that ●aveth us from the wrath of God is the righteousness of God and so a righteousness that is without the law But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifest being witnessed by the law and the prophets even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe Rom. 3. The righteousness of God without the law the righteousness of Christ who is naturally God wherefore such a righteousness as was accomplished by him that was Lord and the very God of the law whose nature was infinite and not that which the law could command or condemn neither was the command of the law the great and principal argument with him no not in its first and highest principles to do or continue to do it but even that which the law commanded of us that he did not by the law but by that spirit of life that eternal Spirit and God-head which was essential to his very being He did naturally and infinitely that which the law required of us from higher and more mighty principles then the law could require of him for I should reckon it a piece of prodigious blasphemy to say that the Law could command his God the Creature his Lord and Creator but this Lord God Jesus Christ even he hath accomplished righteousness even righteousness that is without that is above higher and better then that of the Law and that is the righteousness that is given to and put upon all them that believe Wherefore the Lord Jesus Christ in his most blessed life was neither prompted to actions of holiness nor managed in them by the purity of humane nature or those you call first principles of morals or as he was simply a reasonable Creature but being the natural Son of God truly and essentially eternal as the Father by the eternal Spirit his God-head was his man-hood governed and acted and spirited to do and suffer He through the eternal spirit offered himself without spot to God which offering respects not onely his act of dying but also that by which he was capacitated to dye without spot in his sight which was the infinite Dignity and Sinlessness of his person and the perfect justice of his Actions Now this person thus acting is approved of or justified by the Law to be good for if the righteousness of the Law be good which Law is but a creature the righteousness of the Lord the God of this Law must needs be much more good wherefore here is the Law and its perfection swallowed up even as the light of a Candle or Star is swallowed up by the light of the Sun Thus then is the believer made not the righteousness of the Law but the righteousness of God in Christ because Christ Jesus who is the righteousness of the Christian did walk in this world in and under the Law not by legal and humane principles which are the excellencies of men but in and by those that are divine even such as were and are of his own nature and the essence of his eternal God-head This is the righteousness without the Law accomplished by a person and principles far otherwise then is he or those you make description of and therefore yours cannot be that by which we stand just before the justice of God without the Law Now if it be a righteousness without the Law then it is a righteousness without Men a righteousness that cannot be found in the World For take away the Law the rule and you take away not onely the righteousness but that by which men as men work righteousness in the World Mine own righteousness which is of the Law The righteousness then by which a man must stand just in the sight of God from the curse is not to be found in men nor in the Law but in him and him onely