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Of free justification
Of free justification by Christ written first in Latin by John Fox, author of the Book of martyrs, against Osorius, &c. and now translated into English, for the benefit of those who love their own souls, and would not be mistaken in so great a point.Of free justification by Christ written first in Latine by John Fox, author of the Book of martyrs, against Osorius, &c. and now translated into English, for the benefit of those who love their own souls, and would not be mistaken in so great a point.
London: printed for Tho. Parkhurst, 1694
Book 3 › An Answer to the Adversaries, wherein their Frivolous Exceptions, a… › Argument.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
For by the Law, (which Paul excludes from Justification) they understand that part thereof which comprehends Ceremonial and Judicial Works, wherein the Jews gloried; or Works 1purely Moral, performed before Faith, on which the Gentiles relied. Yea on the contrary, when Paul removes the Law from Justification, he doth not only exclude it, upon the account of Jewish Ceremonies, or Moral Works performed before Faith; but also upon the account of its weakness through the flesh, both in Jews and Gentiles, both in the regenerate, and the unregenerate; so that it cannot make sufficient satisfaction to the Justice of God. And Paul affirms, That for this cause God sent his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh.
For by the Law, (which Paul excludes from Iustification) they understand that part thereof which comprehends Ceremonial and Iudicial Works, wherein the Iews gloried; or Works 1purely Moral, performed before Faith, on which the Gentiles relied. Yea on the contrary, when Paul removes the Law from Iustification, he doth not only exclude it, upon the account of Iewish Ceremonies, or Moral Works performed before Faith; but also upon the account of its weakness through the flesh, both in Iews and Gentiles, both in the regenerate, and the unregenerate; so that it cannot make sufficient satisfaction to the Iustice of God. And Paul affirms, That for this cause God sent his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh.
- 1The blind Error of the Papists about the sense and scope of Pauls Epistles.The blind Errour of the Papists about the sense and scope of Pauls Epistles.
What did God do, but what flesh could not do? For sin, he condemned sin in the flesh. In what flesh? ours, or his own Sons? Who of all the Regenerate, though endued with great habitual Faith and Grace, hath so led his life, walking not according to the flesh, but according to the spirit, but he always carries about with him flesh, that is weak in many respects, and vicious and subject to sin? Concerning which every one may complain with the Apostle: I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no good thing. And again; I find a Law. that when I would do good, evil is present with me, &c. For