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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.
Concerning the Grace of God, how it is defined by Osorius, with a confutation of his Definition.
Arguments increase, because here mention falls in of the Grace of the regenerate. It is showed, though against the Rules of Logic, that the Grace of God is nothing else but Justice and Virtue, upon this account: because it being that chiefly, which makes us acceptable to God, and nothing can be acceptable to God, which is not like unto him, be thinks he prevails sufficiently by this conclusion; That, because nothing […] us like 1God but Righteousness and Virtue, Therefore Grace is nothing, if it is not Virtue and Justice. Why do I use many words on this matter? If that Grace be understood by Osorius, which St. Paul so often commends to us in all his Epistles, both are false, which here the Bishop assumes against the Apostle. For Grace is not rightly ⟨p. 205⟩defined after this manner, that it is nothing else but Virtue and Justice, and first, that it is a Virtue Thomas did flatly deny in his sum of Theology: Part. 12. Quest. 110. Artic. 3. where disputing of the Grace of God, though he denies not that it may be reduced to the first species of quality, 2yet he wholly denies, and confutes its being a Virtue, concluding at length after this manner, that it is a certain habitude presupposed to infused Virtues, as the Principle and Root of them, &c.
ARguments increase, because here mention falls in of the Grace of the regenerate. It is shewed, though against the Rules of Logick, that the Grace of God is nothing else but Iustice and Vertue, upon this account: because it being that chiefly, which makes us acceptable to God, and nothing can be acceptable to God, which is not like unto him, be thinks he prevails sufficiently by this conclusion; That, because nothing us like