A40370:578
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.
The frivolous Objection of the Adversaries, is more largely exa mined and confuted.
The frivolus Objection of the Adversaries, is more largely exa mined and confuted.
BUT what shall be said to those unruly Persons and Deceivers, who though they have undertaken a cause, that they cannot 1defend, being convinced by so many Testimonies of Scripture and Examples. Yet such is their obstinacy, they do not submit to the Truth, when they are overcome by its Evidence. What then have they to say for themselves? By one you may understand what they all are. […] Tiletanus, a Commentator upon the Council of Trent, arguing against Chemnitius, thinks his cause is well enough defended by this curiously contrived Sophistry. Whereas the Holy Scriptures refer all the concernments of Man's Justification, to the Grace of Remission only, he interprets it thus by the Authority of the Council: To wit, he acknowledges it to be true in the first Justification, or in respect of the beginning of Justification: For they say, when a wicked Man is first Justified by Faith no Works, or Merits of Works go before; but by the free grace of God for Faith, and the Merit of the Son ⟨p. 332⟩of God the Mediator, he is received into favour, obtains a Pardon, and is made an Heir. Well said: But what then Sirs; do ye think that this is not sufficient to Establish a Man in everlasting Felicity? No indeed, if your Opinion be true, unless there be added hereunto in the lives of those that are come to years, a perfect Obedience to the Law of Righteousness, which they affirm to be easy, and possible to every Man. And because Human frailty can by no means attain unto this: Therefore there is need of the assisting grace of God, which being altogether infused at once, as Alphonsus affirms, doth so