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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 that he believes and professeth that he is powerful, and very good, 1(That I may proceed in the very words of Osorius) endued with boundless and infinite virtue, and bounty watching over all parts of the World, and passing through them, beholding and taking notice of all things, and looking well to every thing according as the dignity and condition of each thing requires; and whatsoever else belonging to the profession of Faith, is taught in the Writings of the Prophets, Verily that Man is not at all mistaken in believing. For the things that are seen by an Internal light of Faith are very true, though they are very remote from the Senses.
Moreover that he believes and professeth that he is powerful, and very good, 1(That I may proceed in the very words of Osorius) endued with boundless and infinite virtue, and bounty watching over all parts of the World, and passing through them, beholding and taking notice of all things, and looking well to every thingaccording as the dignity and condition of each thing requires; and whatsoever else belonging to the profession of Faith, is taught in the Writings of the Prophets, Verily that Man is not at all mistaken in believing. For the things that are seen by an Internal light of Faith are very true, though they are very remote from the Senses.
- 1Osor. lib. 1. pag. 7.
But yet this is not the Faith, though it be true, that justifies us, 1who are miserably defiled and wretched Sinners, before God. For what Circumcised Jew, or hateful Turk is there, but believes ⟨p. 281⟩all these things, which Osorius, with a long multiplication of words, Preaches of God, and his Power, and Justice, and Immensity? For they together with us confess one God, and rely on his promises with great hope, call upon his Name, observe his commands as well as we, and also flatter themselves with the Title of the true Church; Yea, also they are not Ignorant that the Dead shall be restored to Life, and promise Eternal Life to themselves: Moreover many things, which they see not with their Eyes, they retain. by Faith, and pursue by hope. Briefly, they do no less believe God themselves, and confess God. But if the Christian Faith, according to the Magisterial position of Lombard, should be placed in nothing else, but a solid apprehension of things to be hoped for, and a sure expectation of those things, which do not appear, what hinders, but that both Jews and Saracens may be reckoned faithful upon this account.