A40370:635
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.
How Love and Repentance are concerned in Justification.
How Love and Repentance are concerned in Iustification.
BUT You may say, Is Faith alone here? Is it not joined together with Love and Repentance? I grant indeed, that they are all three together in the person of the Believer. But in the Case of Justification Faith only is regarded: And the other do follow as Fruits and Effects thereof. For as that Woman, unless she had believed in the Mediator, made known unto her by Faith, she had never loved him: So she had never come unto him, as her Physician, unless the Disease of her Troubled Conscience had driven 1her. Wherefore if we reason aright about Causes, these things follow […], as Effects and Fruits thereof, but they are no causes of obtaining Salvation.
BUT You may say, Is Faith alone here? Is it not joyned together with Love and Repentance? I grant indeed, that they are all three together in the person of the Believer. But in the Case of Iustification Faith only is regarded: And the other do follow as Fruits and Effects thereof. For as that Woman, unless she had believed in the Mediatour, made known unto her by Faith, she had nevor loved him: So she had never come unto him, as her Physician, unless the Disease of her Troubled Conscience had driven 1her. Wherefore if we reason aright about Causes, these things follow 〈…〉, as Effects and Fruits thereof, but they are no causes of obtaining Salvation.
- 1Charity is no cause of Justification.