A40370:608
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.
Answer.
No Man discovers the deceit of this argument better than St. Paul himself, who complaining of himself, and deploring his misery, could not, according as he desired, totally root out the strength of Sin out of his Flesh, ⟨p. 346⟩though he was held in Captivity against his will, and yet no Man can say, that he was void of the Grace of God. But let us more accurately examine the reason of the Argument: Which seems to draw its chief force from things privatively opposite; for Sin and Grace are privatively opposite. Which cannot consist together in the same subject. Whence this Reason of the Argument follows.
No Man discovers the deceit of this argument better than St. Paul himself, who complaining of himself, and deploring his misery, could not, according as he desired, totally root out the strength of Sin out of his Flesh, ⟨p. 346⟩though he was held in Captivity against his will, and yet no Man can say, that he was void of the Grace of God. But let us more accurately examin the reason of the Argument: Which seems to draw its chief force from things privatively opposite; for Sin and Grace are privatively opposite. Which cannot consist together in the same subject. Whence this Reason of the Argument follows.