A40370:233
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.
In which thing the admirable Artifice 1of our Redemption is seen: Where Mercy encountering with Justice doth so contend that it overcomes also, and yet so overcomes, that in the mean while there is not made any violation of Justice, but a just recompense for sins. For as unjust as it is, that he, who was free from sin, should suffer the punishment of sin for the guilty; It is again as unjust, that our sins already expiated in him for us, should again ⟨p. 129⟩be punished in us by the judgment of condemnation. And upon a different account how just it was, that the sin of one, who sustained the person of all nature, should be propagated unto all that came of him, and should be given to public condemnation: Again, it is as agreeable to Justice, that the obedience of one man, who undertook the cause and person of all men, should be likewise communicated to all regenerated of him, to the imputation of righteousness.
In which thing the admirable Artifice 1of our Redemption is seen: Where Mercy encountering with Iustice doth so contend that it overcomes also, and yet so overcomes, that in the mean while there is not made any violation of Iustice, but a just recompence for sins. For as unjust as it is, that he, who was free from sin, should suffer the punishment of sin for the guilty; It is again as unjust, that our sins already expiated in him for us, should again ⟨p. 129⟩be punished in us by the judgment of condemnation. And upon a different account how just it was, that the sin of one, who sustained the person of all nature, should be propagated unto all that came of him, and should be given to publick condemnation: Again, it is as agreeable to Iustice, that the obedience of one man, who undertook the cause and person of all men, should be likewise communicated to all regenerated of him, to the imputation of righteousness.
- 1The Blood of Redemption encountering with Righteousness, yet not violating Righteousness but Redeeming it.