A40370:602
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.
If the Bishops, Arch-bishops, and their Colleagues, the Abbots, and the Church governors 1adorned with their Mitres, would be accounted the Successors of the Apostles, and not the Pharisees, let them leave off so to enlarge their Phylacteries, and diminish their Worldly Grandeur and Wealth, wherewith they are too much puffed up, and learn to contain ⟨p. 343⟩themselves within the bounds 2of Apostolic moderation that, after the manner of the Apostles, they may grow truly rich in Christ. Christ doth not acknowledge them for Servants, that serve two Master. Therefore if the Monks and Religious Orders would be Christians, let them cease to be Franciscans, Dominicans, &c.
If the Bishops, Arch-bishops, and their Collegues, the Abbots, and the Churchgovernours 1adorned with their Miters, would be accounted the Successours of the Apostles, and not the Pharisees, let them leave off so to enlarge their Phylacteries, and diminish their Worldly Grandeur and Wealth, wherewith they are too much puffed up, and learn to contain ⟨p. 343⟩themselves within the bounds 2of Apostolick moderation that, after the manner of the Apostles, they may grow truly rich in Christ. Christ doth not acknowledge them for Servants, that serve two Master. Therefore if the Monks and Religious Orders would be Christians, let them cease to be Franciscans, Dominicans, &c.
- 1Bishops, Governors or the Church.
- 2The Orders and Rules of Monks.