A40370:540
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.
Reasons are brought against the Definition of Justification set down by Thomas.
Reasons are brought against the Definition of Iustification set down by Thomas.
BUT because here we fall into a debate with Thomas, about the definition of Justification; Out of whose Breasts the late School Divines seem to have sucked whatsoever poison runs in this Controversy: It will not be unconvenient as it were by tracing his Foot-steps, to pursue the deceits of this definition by a more exact enquiry, and to confute them by just Authority, that we may as much as in us lies, bring to nothing these Sophistical tricks. But by what reason more happily, or by what authority more conveniently shall I do it, then if I oppose St. Hierom to St. Thomas, who I think is nothing inferior to him, as it were beating out one hard wedge with another harder wedge. Now, whereas Thomas measuring this peripatetical Justification by a Physical Motion, he terminates it by ⟨p. 312⟩these bonds, to wit, That it is a Transmutation from a Term of Unrighteousness, by Remission of sins, to a Term or State of Righteousness: immediately the Divines of the Council of Trent following him, snatch at this same definition, and thus express it, that it is a Translation from that State, in which Man is born a Son of the first Adam, into a State of grace and adoption of the Sons of God by the second Adam, Jesus Christ our Saviour. Though this latter definition seems to be somewhat more cautious in words, but it differs not much in the Sense, yet one answer is sufficient to both of them.
BUT because here we fall into a debate with Thomas, about the definition of Iustification; Out of whose Breasts the late School Divines seem to have sucked whatsoever poyson runs in this Controversie: It will not be unconvenient as it were by tracing his Foot-steps, to pursue the deceits of this definition by a more exact enquiry, and to confute them by just Authority, that we may as much as in us lies, bring to nothing these Sophistical tricks. But by what reason more happily, or by what authority more conveniently shall I do it, then if I oppose St. Hierom to St. Thomas, who I think is nothing inferior to him, as it were beating out one hard wedge with another harder wedge. Now, whereas Thomas measuring this peripatetical Iustification by a Physical Motion, he terminates it by