A40370:145
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.
This argument having a bad connection, 1doth evidently destroy it self. First, there is no man that denies that actual sin is not abolished in Baptized Infants, in whom it is not committed. In those come to years, if all sins are so extinguished, that no relics remain, what need is there of any conversion? ⟨p. 78⟩For what place is there for repentance, where nothing is committed contrary to duty? What if the Life of the Saints is nothing else, but almost a daily conversion and mourning for sin, how can a daily frailty of sinning be wanting there? But let us look upon the parts of the Argument. Sin abolished, say they, doth not remain. 2That is true indeed if perfect and complete abolishment of sin be understood, both as to the Material of Sin, and as to the Formal, as the Schools speak. Therefore as touching the Major, in so much I acknowledge, sin doth not remain, in how much it is abolished in the Saints. But after what manner, and in what order it is abolished in the Baptized and in the adult, it follows next that this should be enquired into in the Minor.
This argument having a bad connexion, 1doth evidently destroy it self. First, there is no man that denies that actual sin is not abolished in Baptized Infants, in whom it is not committed. In those come to years, if all sins are so extinguished, that no relicks remain, what need is there of any conversion? ⟨p. 78⟩For what place is there for repentance, where nothing is committed contrary to duty? What if the Life of the Saints is nothing else, but almost a daily conversion and mourning for sin, how can a daily frailty of sinning be wanting there? But let us look upon the parts of the Argument. Sin abolished, say they, doth not remain. 2That is true indeed if perfect and compleat abolishment of sin be understood, both as to the Material of Sin, and as to the Formal, as the Schools speak. Therefore as touching the Major, in so much I acknowledge, sin doth not remain, in how much it is abolished in the Saints. But after what manner, and in what order it is abolished in the Baptized and in the adult, it follows next that this should be enquired into in the Minor.