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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
Book 1 › How Christ takes away Sins: With an Answer to the Objections of Oso… › An Answer.
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.
By what Author, by what Witness, by what Doctor, by what Testimony, or Example, do you prove this to be true, which you Preach?
First, You say, is not this certain, 1that Sin is hateful to God, which necessarily through its violence and outrageousness divides us from Union with God? And how can it be that the Lord, who is by Nature just, and a Lover of Righteousness, should not take away all Sins out of the minds of them, whom he designs to unite unto himself by Love? Moreover he that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all; How, saith Paul, will he not with him give us all things? If then the ⟨p. 185⟩Testimony of Paul be true, it is thence evident, that those are delivered from all Wickedness, whom that infinite purity joins unto it self by most pure Love.
First, You say, is not this certain, 1that Sin is hateful to God, which necessarily through its violence and outragiousness divides us from Union with God? And how can it be that the Lord, who is by Nature just, and a Lover of Righteousness, should not take away all Sins out of the minds of them, whom he designs to unite unto himself by Love? Moreover he that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all; How, saith Paul, will he not with him give us all things? If then the ⟨p. 185⟩Testimony of Paul be true, it is thence evident, that those are delivered from all Wickedness, whom that infinite purity joins unto it self by most pure Love.
- 1A confirmation of the Osorian Assertion.