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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 seeing Christ works these things in us with continual care, daily more and more, promoting and bringing unto maturity that which he hath begun in us; there is therefore no cause why the Graces of Christ here should seem needless to any Man.
But these beginnings of Divine Grace must be distinguished from 1that perfect and complete renovation of Nature, which shall be seen in the glorified after this life. For though it should not be doubted but great advantages are communicated to Believers by the Divine help of the Holy Spirit, both to shun those things that are grievously offensive, and also to exercise the Offices of ⟨p. 192⟩Piety; of which Paul Rom. 8. They 2who are led, saith he by the Spirit of 3God, are the Sons of God. Yet there is not given to the regenerate in this life a complete conformity to the Law of God, but it is reserved for the other life; for the life of the Saints in this World should not be called a life of the flesh but of Faith rather, not a life of perfect, but of begun love and mortification; as being not so much discerned in justice as in justification, not in perfect holiness, but in sanctification; not in perfect purity, but in purification, not in perfection, but in going forward.
But these beginnings of Divine Grace must be distinguished from 1that perfect and compleat renovation of Nature, which shall be seen in the glorified after this life. For though it should not be doubted but great advantages are communicated to Believers by the Divine help of the Holy Spirit, both to shun those things that are grievously offensive, and also to exercise the Offices of