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Acts and monuments of matters most special and memorable, happening in the Church. [vol.…Actes and monuments of matters most speciall and memorable, happenyng in the Church. [vol.…
Acts and monuments of matters most special and memorable, happening in the Church. [vol. 1] with an universal history of the same, wherein is set forth at large the whole race and course of the Church, from the primitive age to these latter times of ours, with the bloody times, horrible troubles, and great persecutions against the true martyrs of Christ, sought and wrought as well by heathen emperors, as now lately practised by Romish prelates, especially in this realm of England and Scotland. Newly revised and recognised, partly also augmented, and now the fourth time again published and recommended to the studious reader, by the author (through the help of Christ our Lord) John Fox, which desireth thee good reader to help him with thy prayer.Actes and monuments of matters most speciall and memorable, happenyng in the Church. [vol. 1] with an vniuersall history of the same, wherein is set forth at large the whole race and course of the Church, from the primitiue age to these latter tymes of ours, with the bloudy times, horrible troubles, and great persecutions agaynst the true martyrs of Christ, sought and wrought as well by heathen emperours, as nowe lately practised by Romish prelates, especially in this realme of England and Scotland. Newly reuised and recognised, partly also augmented, and now the fourth time agayne published and recommended to the studious reader, by the author (through the helpe of Christ our Lord) Iohn Foxe, which desireth thee good reader to helpe him with thy prayer.
London: printed by John Daye, 1583London: printed by Iohn Daye, 1583
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And thus much of the true causes of our justification after the doctrine of S. Paul.1 Concerning which causes this distinction furthermore by the way is to be added, that as touching the original causes of our salvation, which be divers and sundry, some are external, & without us: some are internal,2 and within us. Of the external causes which are without us, the first and principal is the mercy & grace of god. Of this followeth predestination and election. Then cometh vocation. The last and next cause to us is the death and bloodshed of christ whereby we are redeemed, & all these be external causes, because they are without us. Of internal causes that be in man through the gift of God, there is but one, & no mo in scripture appointed, that is, out faith in Christ, which is the gift of God in us. Beside this there is no gift of God given to man, virtue, work, merit, nor any thing else, that is any part or cause of salvation, but only this gift of faith,3 to believe in Christ Jesus. And this is the cause why we hold that faith only justifieth, meaning, that amongst all the works, deeds, actions, labours, and operations, whatsoever man doth, or can do, there is nothing in that man that worketh salvation but only his faith given to him of God to believe in Christ his Son, following therein the trade of S. Pauls teaching: who in precise words so ascribeth justification to faith, that he excludeth all other actions of man, & works of the law: And therefore in the same Epistle to the Romans, ⟨p. 23⟩S. Paul reasoning of the glory of justifying, asketh this question how this glory is excluded: whether by the law of works? and concludeth no: ascribing only the glory thereof to the law of faith,4 And consequently upon the same he inferreth: Colligimus enim justificari hominem per fidem sine operibus legis. We hold that a man is justified by faith. without the deeds of the law.
And thus much of the true causes of our iustification after the doctrine of S. Paule.1