A40370:242
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.
And because, 1as you say, we cannot be in the middle between the two, therefore it remains, that having forsaken the party of the body, we should so fight under the banner of Christ our Prince, we should so subdue the body it self, by the power of his saving Cross; all rebellion of the body should so be overcome in us, that this unbridled lust, which maintains everlasting enmity against God, may at length yield to his command; and that we may not lessen any endeavour, or labour howsoever great in this most holy observance of Justice, and imitation of Christ.
And because, 1as you say, we cannot be in the middle between the two, therefore it remains, that having forsaken the party of the body, we should so fight under the banner of Christ our Prince, we should so subdue the body it self, by the power of his saving Crosi; all rebellion of the body should so be overcome in us, that this unbridled lust, which maintains everlasting enmity against God, may at length yield to his command; and that we may not lessen any endeavour, or labour howsoever great in this most holy observance of Iustice, and imitation of Christ.
- 1The imitation of Christ is very necessary for all.
As these things are proposed by you, most excellent Osorius, no less Holily than Eloquently; so I would that in like manner your Rhetoric might make a suitable Harmony concerning the Imitation of Christ, in the Ears of the Roman Bishops and Cardinals: That these Men, having abdicated the perishing and transitory Wealth of this World, with which they overflow beyond all measure of their own profession, and also above royal magnificence, may at length think of the poverty of Christ, that they may diminish their Possessions, and large Inheritances heaped together, their Diadems, and their other regalities; I say, not according to the example of the Ancient Philosophers, but according to the contentation of the most Holy Apostles; that seriously rejecting the luxury, and superfluity of this Life, their vain glory,