A40370:190
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.
Ma. Our Faith is Righteousness before God.
Mi. Our Faith is an internal and inherent virtue.
Mi. Our Faith is an internal and inherent vertue.
But here again the Adversaries object, that they do not at all deny, but that Faith is an internal virtue in us, which nevertheless makes us faithful, but makes us not just. Why so? because we are said to be faithful from faith, but we are said to be righteous only from righteousness; O sweet and understanding men! as if those who are faithful in Christ Jesus, were not also just before our God, or as if these things should only be looked upon in their names, and needed not to be considered rather in their causes and effects. And what will they then say to these words of Paul, being justified by faith we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ? What if the cause being granted, the effect also must necessarily be granted, and faith is a justifying cause (as the Apostle witnesseth) how can it be, that those who receive the name of faithful from faith, should not also upon the same account receive the cause of righteousness, whence they are not only called righteous, but made so also in reality.