A40370:533
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.
What is the True and Genuine Definition of Faith.
BY Which so many and so evident places of Scripture, there is no Man that cannot be most sure, what is properly 1the Object of that Faith which justifies us; To wit, no other thing, but the person of the Son of God: As again the object of Confidence is the promise of God. Which things being so, it will not be difficult to gather from these Notions of Scripture, what is the true and genuine definition of justifying Faith, concerning which we are making enquiry: which seems, that it ought to be defined according to the right rule of the Gospel after this manner. To wit, That it is a right knowledge of the Son of God planted in our minds, 2whereby we acknowledge a promised Christ, and receive him being held forth, and with our Mouth profess him to have dyed for us, and rose again, Worship him in Spirit, and embrace him with all our mind, together with all his benefits.
BY Which so many and so evident places of Scriptute, there is no Man that cannot be most sure, what is properly 1the Object of that Faith which justifies us; To wit, no other thing, but the person of the Son of God: As again the object of Confidence is the promise of God. Which things being so, it will not be difficult to gather from these Notions of Scripture, what is the true and genuine definition of justifying Faith, concerning which we are making enquiry: which seems, that it ought to be defined according to the right rule of the Gospel after this manner. To wit, That it is a right knowledge of the Son of God planted in our minds, 2whereby we acknowledge a promised Christ, and receive him being held forth, and with our Mouth profess him to have dyed for us, and rose again, Worship him in Spirit, and embrace him with all our mind, together with all his benefits.