A40370:176
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 in the interim here it comes into my mind to ask you a thing, How will this ⟨p. 102⟩consist with that which the Church 1sings in a holy Hymn, and sings so aright: Thou only art holy? For how shall he only have the praise of that thing, as saith Hierom, which he hath common to himself with many? What if you think there is no difference between his Righteousness and ours, and you suppose there is no Righteousness but what proceeds chiefly from Works; either let your life show to us the same Works, which Christ wrought, or if you cannot, let him only have the honour of this Title, that Christ only may be righteous, and Osorius may confess himself to be unrighteous and à sinner, that now that saying may truly have place here, which just now I cited out of Augustine. Let man take sin, 2to himself, which is his own, and leave Righteousness to God.
But in the interim here it comes into my mind to ask you a thing, How will this ⟨p. 102⟩consist with that which the Church 1sings in a holy Hymn, and sings so aright: Thou only art holy? For how shall he only have the praise of that thing, as saith Hierom, which he hath common to himself with many? What if you think there is no difference between his Righteousness and ours, and you suppose there is no Righteousness but what proceeds chiefly from Works; either let your life shew to us the same Works, which Christ wrought, or if you cannot, let him only have the honour of this Title, that Christ only may be righteous, and Osorius may confess himself to be unrighteous and à sinner, that now that saying may truely have place here, which just now I cited out of Augustine. Let man take sin, 2to himself, which is his own, and leave Righteousness to God.