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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 2 › Not every Faith Justifies.Book 2 › Not every Faith Iustifies.
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.
Moreover there are those that divide the use of this Word into many forms. Andreas Vega, reckons in the general Nine Significations of the word of Faith. 1Put because in these which I have hitherto reckoned, there is no mention made of that person, from whom all the Virtue of Justifying proceeds, therefore I see not how it can be, that Justification should rightly agree to the same. Wherefore this seems less strange to me in Osorius, Hosius, and others of that School; if their Opinion is not so right about the Justification of Faith, for they seem not to have clearly enough discerned, or at least not to have fitly defined that Faith, which the Evangelical Writings propose unto us.
Moreover there are those that divide the use of this Word into many forms. Andreas Vega, reckons in the general Nine Significations of the word of Faith. 1Put because in these which I have hitherto reckoned, there is no mention made of that person, from whom all the Vertue of Iustifying proceeds, therefore I see not how it can be, that Iustification should rightly agree to the same. VVherefore this seems less strange to me in Osorius, Hosius, and others of that School; if their Opinion is not so right about the Iustification of Faith, for they seem not to have clearly enough discerned, or at least not to have fitly defined that Faith, which the Evangelical VVritings propose unto us.
- 1Andreas Vega Hisp. De Just. q. 1. Nine Significations of Faith in Vega.Andreas Vega Hisp. De Iust. q. 1. Nine Significations of Faith in Vega.
But if this Faith, that we profess, contained no other thing in it, 1but that which they pretend to in their Books, I would be of the same Opinion, which they Preach: To wit, That it avails little to the procuring of Righteousness. That this may be the more evident, I would have Pious Readers listen to what those Men teach concerning Faith, and how they define it. And so they define it, that either through blindness they know not, or by dissimulation they make as if they knew not, what is the true Faith proposed to us in the Gospel for Righteousness. And that we may begin first at the Tridentines, they so define it, That it is a firm assent unto those things, that are revealed, and made manifest by God. And Osorius following these Men Collects