A40370:312
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.
Wherefore seeing there are so many and so great causes of making a Law, it appears evident enough from hence, that there is no cause why the Law should seem to be imposed upon us by God in vain: And yet it doth not therefore follow, because the Law of God, after the fall, is impossible to Human Nature, as to the complete obedience thereof, that therefore it is unprofitable, seeing the same hath advantages so remarkable. Therefore the major of the Argument implies a fallacy: Which 1by the Logicians is called Arguing form that which is not a cause, as if it were a cause. But let us proceed to the other reasons in your arguments, which are not reasons, but deceits and fallacies; For so you argue against Luther, whom you bring forth most unjustly, as a certain most bitter Adversary of Eternal Righteousness.
Wherefore seeing there are so many and so great causes of making a Law, it appears evident enough from hence, that there is no cause why the Law should seem to be imposed upon us by God in vain: And yet it doth not therefore follow, because the Law of God, after the fall, is impossible to Human Nature, as to the compleat obedience thereof, that therefore it is unprofirable, seeing the same hath advantages so remarkable. Therefore the major of the Argument implies a fallacy: Which 1by the Logicians is called Arguing form that which is not a cause, as if it were a cause. But let us proceed to the other reasons in your arguments, which are not reasons, but deceits and fallacies; For so you argue against Luther, whom you bring forth most unjustly, as a certain most bitter Adversary of Eternal Righteousness.
- 1A fallacy from that which is not a cause, as if it were a cause.
What is more contrary to Justice and Equity, say you, than that one should be punished upon that account, because he hath not performed those things which he could by no means so much as begin? I hear you; and what follows?