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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 again the same Augustine writing to Boniface: The Virtue, saith he, which is now in a Righteous Man, is called perfect upon this account, because it belongs to his perfection, both to acknowledge in Truth, and confess in Humility his own Imperfection. ⟨p. 160⟩Moreover, Hierom not much differing from him answered wittily: To whom, when that place of St. Paul was objected: Whosoever of us are perfect, we understand this: To this Hierom, says: What then 1do we understand, yea, what ought we to understand, that we who are perfect, should acknowledge our selves to be unperfect, and that they have not yet comprehended, nor yet attained unto perfection. This is, saith he, the Wisdom of Man, to know himself to be imperfect; and that I may so speak, the perfection of all Righteous Men in the Flesh, is imperfect, &c. And afterwards again in the same Book.
And again the same Augustine writing to Boniface: The Vertue, saith he, which is now in a Righteous Man, is called perfect upon this account, because it belongs to his perfection, both to acknowledge in Truth, and confess in Humility his own Imperfection. ⟨p. 160⟩Moreover, Hierom not much differing from him answered wittily: To whom, when that place of St. Paul was objected: Whosoever of us are perfect, we understand this: To this Hierom, says: What then 1do we understand, yea, what ought we to understand, that we who are perfect, should acknowledge our selves to be unperfect, and that they have not yet comprehended, nor yet attained unto perfection. This is, saith he, the Wisdom of Man, to know himself to be imperfect; and that I may so speak, the perfection of all Righteous Men in the Flesh, is imperfect, &c. And afterwards again in the same Book.
- 1Hierom. Advers. pelag. lib. 1.