A40370:165
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.
But how much more modestly would you behave your self, if with a humble meekness restraining that insolency of Spirit, you would either frame your self to the Example of David, who durst not come forth into the presence of God, or would put on that most humble mind of Tertullian, who comparing his Life with another Man, thou art a Sinner, saith he, like me, yea, a less ⟨p. 94⟩Sinner than I, for I acknowledge a pre-eminence in my sins, &c. At 1least you might and ought to be admonished by the sharp rebuke of the Laodiceans, who when they had highly flattered themselves with a false persuasion of their own righteousness, which they took upon them by works; They did not in any other thing more displease the 2Divine Judgment; therefore Augustin said right, let no man flatter himself: Let Man take Sin, which is his own, and let him leave Righteousness to God, &c.
But how much more modestly would you behave your self, if with a humble meekness restraining that insolency of Spirit, you would either frame your self to the Example of David, who durst not come forth into the presence of God, or would put on that most humble mind of Tertullian, who comparing his Life with another Man, thou art a Sinner, saith he, like me, yea, a less ⟨p. 94⟩Sinner than I, for I acknowledge a pre-eminence in my sins, &c. At 1least you might and ought to be admonished by the sharp rebuke of the Laodiceans, who when they had highly flattered themselves with a false perswasion of their own righteousness, which they took upon them by works; They did not in any other thing more displease the 2Divine Iudgment; therefore Augustin said right, let no man flatter himself: Let Man take Sin, which is his own, and let him leave Righteousness to God, &c.
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