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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
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.
The History of the Galatians is well known, who being led aside by the false Apostles, did not wholly cast off Christ, nor excluded Faith in Christ, but they would have had the good Works of Believers joined with Faith in the Article of Justification before God unto Eternal Life: for which cause, how angry the Apostle was at them, his Epistle bears witness.
The History of the Galatians is well known, who being led aside by the false Apostles, did not wholly cast off Christ, nor excluded Faith in Christ, but they would have had the good Works of Believers joyned with Faith in the Article of Iustification before God unto Eternal Life: for which cause, how angry the Apostle was at them, his Epistle bears witness.
But here again a place of St. Paul out of the same Epistle is objected, 1where writing to the Galatians, he speaks of Faith, that works by Charity. From hence the Tridentine Divines infer a necessary connection between Faith and Charity; so that Faith without Charity, like matter without form, avails nothing to the 2perfection of Righteousness. And they say of Charity, which they ⟨p. 504⟩call Righteousness inherent in us, That it is so impossible that it should be separated from Faith in the concernment of Justification, that they assert it only to be the formal cause of our Justification. But it is 3not difficult to answer to this place of Paul. For in that Epistle the Apostle endeavours with great diligence to call back his Galatians to the Righteousness of Faith from which they had swerved. In the mean while, lest they should be seduced by a counterfeit Faith, by these words he intimates, what Faith it is, that he speaks of: Not such a Faith as is idle and dead without Works, but which worketh by