A40370:63
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.
And again in the same place discoursing 1of the Salvation of Christians: Do you ask how a man is Saved? Is there another way prepared for Salvation, but what is eontained in the Law of God? none at all; Therefore we, miserable mortals, have a way to the Immortal Kingdom laid out and showed unto us, and that a very easy one, you Osorius, being our guide and teacher, which is contained in the Law of God: So that besides this there is no other way laid open, neither in the Gospel, nor the 2Writings of the Apostles, whereby we may be brought to the Heavenly Country, and its immortality, but that which is described only in the Law of God.
And again in the same place discoursing 1of the Salvation of Christians: Do you ask how a man is Saved? Is there another way prepared for Salvation, but what is eontained in the Law of God? none at all; Therefore we, miserable mortals, have a way to the Immortal Kingdom laid out and shewed unto us, and that a very easie one, you Osorius, being our guide and teacher, which is contained in the Law of God: So that besides this there is no other way laid open, neither in the Gospel, nor the 2Writings of the Apostles, whereby we may be brought to the Heavenly Countrey, and its immortality, but that which is described only in the Law of God.
- 1Lib. 9. 233. What sort of righteousuess is that of Osorius. Lib. 9. p. 232. Lib. 9. p. 232.
- 2what way men come to Heaven according to the opinion of Osorius.
Suppose these things were granted you, which you affirm, though they be in themselves absurd, and wholly Judaical, but let me grant, or at least feign that this way which you show, is the only way, and the most firmly founded, and also that the same is the most easy, and likewise that there is no other way by which we can come to Heaven, but that only which is proposed by the description of the Divine Law: Suppose we grant this, yet in the mean while see thou teach me this: how thou canst know that thou dost as many good works as are sufficient for a complete obedience to the Law. Of old our first