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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
Book 3 › Another Argument taken from the words of Christ, Matth. 25. › Answer.
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.
Suppose we grant all contained 1in this Argument, what will these Roman Justiciaries infer from thence? Therefore (as Vega speaks) Faith is not sufficient to Salvation, without the keeping of the Commandments. It is easy to answer him in a word. Let him keep the Commandments according to the exact Rule of the Divine Will, ⟨p. 382⟩and he shall be saved. But neither he, nor any other man can perfectly keep the Commands of God in this Life: From whence we infer this by necessary consequence, That either there is no hope of obtaining the Kingdom, or else that it lies not in the works of the Law.
Suppose we grant all contained 1in this Argument, what will these Roman Iusticiaries infer from thence? Therefore (as Vega speaks) Faith is not sufficient to Salvation, without the keeping of the Commandments. It is easie to answer him in a word. Let him keep the Commandments according to the exact Rule of the Divine Will, ⟨p. 382⟩and he shall be saved. But neither he, nor any other man can perfectly keep the Commands of God in this Life: From whence we infer this by necessary consequence, That either there is no hope of obtaining the Kingdom, or else that it lies not in the works of the Law.
- 1Andr. Vega.
Now if it be so, what remains, but that finding this is not the way to Heaven, we should seek for another way; and because there is no door of Salvation opened to sinners in the Law of Commandments, therefore we must fly to another Refuge: But what that Refuge is, appearing to us from Heaven it self, the Divine Will declares unto us, which is not set forth in the Old Law, but in the New Testament of the Gospel. And this is his Will, that every one who believeth in the Son, should not perish, but have Eternal Life. For whereas the Law was weak because