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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.
What then, you will say, Doth not Paul writing to the Hebrews 1expressly comprehend Faith in that same definition, To wit, That it is the substance of things hoped for, &c. Verily, I neither reject Paul the Author of this Epistle, nor disapprove the definition, neither do I examine that, nor do so much as enquire for it, which is enquired for in Lombard: Whether this description be more agreeable to Faith than Hope? But this I answer: That we may ⟨p. 282⟩confess this Faith to be true, which is here defined. But surely that is not the Faith which properly justifies the wicked in the sight of the Lord.
What then, you will say, Doth not Paul writing to the Hebrews 1expresly comprehend Faith in that same definition, To wit, That it is the substance of things hoped for, &c. Verily, I neither reject Paul the Author of this Epistle, nor disapprove the definition, neither do I examin that, nor do so much as enquire for it, which is enquired for in Lombard: Whether this description be more agreeable to Faith than Hope? But this I answer: That we may ⟨p. 282⟩confess this Faith to be true, which is here defin'd. But surely that is not the Faith which properly justifies the wicked in the sight of the Lord.