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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.
Of the Repentance of those that are Justified by Faith.
Of the Repentance of those that are Iustified by Faith.
BUT None are found more fit, than those, that seem to themselves most unworthy, and none less fit, than those, that are most highly conceited of their own worthiness. Seeing we are all Sinners by Nature, nothing can be more reasonable, than that we should acknowledge the filthiness of our own abominations, and cast our selves down at the Feet of Almighty God.
And there is nothing that God more requires, than this: Whose Nature, or rather Mercy is such, that he delights not in any thing more, than in a humble Heart and a broken Spirit, as the Psalmist declares: 1He saveth such as are of a contrite Spirit. And in the Prophet Isaiah, God testifies of himself, that he is the high and lofty one that inhabiteth ⟨p. 367⟩Eternity, and dwells in the high and Holy place, and also with him that is humble and of a contrite Spirit, to comfort the humble Spirit, and to revive the Heart of the contrite ones. And for that cause he calls aloud in the Gospel, and offers his kind invitations chiefly to such as labour, and are heavy laden, that they may come unto him, and be eased.