A40370:203
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.
For what can any man do more justly, or more holily, than to believe in the only begotten Son of God, and to embrace him with all his faith, as the Gospel bears witness. This is the work of God, that ye should believe in him, whom he hath sent. And what Doctrine is more excellent, than to know Christ the Son of God aright, and the power of his Death, and Resurrection? Which knowledge, how much it is valued by God above all other disciplines and arts, it may appear by this, which is foretold unto us of Christ by the Divine Prophet, ⟨p. 116⟩and my Righteous Servant, saith he, by his Knowledge shall justify many. What if our Justification is placed only in the knowledge of the Son of God, and the Faith of the Son is nothing else but knowledge Divinely Inspired; what credit then should be given to those Jesuitical Sophisters, who neither admit of any external cause of justifying, nor acknowledge any other but this, which they themselves place in Works.
For what can any man do more justly, or more holily, than to believe in the only begotten Son of God, and to embrace him with all his faith, as the Gospel bears witness. This is the work of God, that ye should believe in him, whom he hath sent. And what Doctrine is more excellent, than to know Christ the Son of God aright, and the power of his Death, and Resurrection? Which knowledge, how much it is valued by God above all other disciplines and arts, it may appear by this, which is foretold unto us of Christ by the Divine Prophet, ⟨p. 116⟩and my Righteous Servant, saith he, by his Knowledge shall justifie many. What if our Iustification is placed only in the knowledge of the Son of God, and the Faith of the Son is nothing else but knowledge Divinely Inspired; what credit then should be given to those Iesuitical Sophisters, who neither admit of any external cause of justifying, nor acknowledge any other but this, which they themselves place in Works.
And now what will they answer to this Argument of Augustin?