A40370:843
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 › An Explication of the Parable of the Wedding Garment. › Argument.
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.
Thought it be manifest, that we assert nothing here, which the Orthodox Divines of the Primitive Church have not confirmed unanimously, and in the same Words; yet nevertheless these things so evident in themselves, do not satisfy those perverse Sophisters, who when they cannot deny the very Words of learned Men, yet they take occasion to contend with us about the Sense of the Words, in which they pretend that we do greatly err; for they have found out a curiously contrived Distinction: Saying, That by Faith 1only is understood the first Justification, but not the second. Thus these cunning Artificers of Words have turned one Justification into two, one, that is obtained by the first Grace, as they call it, before all Works, as in Infants, when they are Baptized: And another, which is in Persons come to Years, by the practice of good Works.
Thought it be manifest, that we assert nothing here, which the Orthodox Divines of the Primitive Church have not confirmed unanimously, and in the same Words; yet nevertheless these things so evident in themselves, do not satisfie those perverse Sophisters, who when they cannot deny the very Words of learned Men, yet they take occasion to contend with us about the Sense of the Words, in which they pretend that we do greatly err; for they have found out a curiously contrived Distinction: Saying, That by Faith 1only is understood the first Iustification, but not the second. Thus these cunning Artificers of Words have turned one Iustification into two, one, that is obtained by the first Grace, as they call it, before all Works, as in Infants, when they are Beptized: And another, which is in Persons come to Years, by the practice of good Works.
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