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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.
But in the mean while perhaps some Man will object: If the promise of God be confined to certain conditions, how then shall we with Paul make the 1mercy of God free, whereby he freely justifies the Wicked? Yea verily, I both judge and hold that the Mercy of God is most free: Free, I say, in Christ. Otherways without Christ there can be no hope of Mercy, nor promise of Salvation, nor remission of Sins. And the Sons of the Papacy will not deny this that all the riches of the Divine promise and of our Salvation stand in Christ. And indeed in so much they are in ⟨p. 284⟩the right. For hereby I understand the Mediator, by whom 2God dispenses his Heavenly gifts to us: That […] Christ. But I do not yet perceive well enough, how he dispenses by this Mediator. For tho I acknowledge him to be Mediator, to whose merit only we are beholden for all our Salvation, 3yet because this Salvation by the Merit of Christ, is not Communicated unto all, neither is it derived to us but upon a certain Condition, I would gladly learn of those Men, what is that Condition prescribed unto us by God to obtain Salvation, or how this meritorious Efficiency of the Mediator Works in us: And here presently Answers Lombard, 4and others that favour the Lombardic Discipline, that it comes to pass this way; To wit, by Charity infused through the Merits of Christ, which being received by our voluntary taking it in, we are incontinently not only named just, but are really so.
But in the mean while perhaps some Man will object: If the promise of God be confined to certain conditions, how then shall we with Paul make the 1mercy of God free, whereby he freely justifies the Wicked? Yea verily, I both judge and hold that the Mercy of God is most free: Free, I say, in Christ. Otherways without Christ there can be no hope of Mercy, nor promise of Salvation, nor remission of Sins. And the Sons of the Papacy will not deny this that all the riches of the Divine promise and of our Salvation stand in Christ. And indeed in so much they are in