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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.
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 1what they speak of Works following Faith and Grace, how little that helps their cause appears not more evident by any Argument, than by the Lives of those, that maintain this Controversy, if they be strictly enquired into. If that be true, which Campian with his Jesuits pleads for, That Righteousness is not obtained in men come to years, but by Works that follow after Faith: Let us behold then what excellent Works this Faith of the Mother Church of Rome brings forth; seeing they so much glory in the Title of Catholic Faith, and Preach so many things about Charity, which is the fulfilling of the Law.
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 1what they speak of Works following Faith and Grace, how little that helps their cause appears not more evident by any Argument, than by the Lives of those, that maintain this Controversie, if they be strictly enquired into. If that be true, which Campian with his Iesuits pleads for, That Righteousness is not obtained in men come to years, but by Works that follow after Faith: Let us behold then what excellent Works this Faith of the Mother Church of Rome brings forth; seeing they so much glory in the Title of Catholick Faith, and Preach so many things about Charity, which is the fulfilling of the Law.