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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 how then can that he accounted for any part of our justification, which S. Paul utterly debarreth and excludeth in that behalf? of which like exclusives and negatives the whole course of S. Pauls doctrine is full, where he still concludeth: Sine operibus, absque operibus legis, non exoperibus, Dei donum est, 1non ex operibus ne quis sed secundū misericordiā glorietur, Ephe 2. Non ex operibus justitiae quae fecimus nos sed secundū propositsi suum & grati•m &c. Titi. 3. Non secundum opera nostra. 2&c. Timot 1. That is to say, It is the gift of God, not of works, that no man should glory. &c. Not of the works of righteousness, which we have done, but of his own mercy. &c. Not after our works, but after his own purpose, & grace which is given to us, 3&c., Agayne Gal 2. Non justificatur homo ex operibus. &c. That is, A man is not justified by works &c. Item,4 Ei qui non operatur credenti autē in eū qui justificat impium fides imputatur ad justitiam &c. Rom. 4. To him that worketh not, but believeth in him which justifieth the wicked, his faith is imputed to righteousness. 5&c. By these exclusives, and negatives in Saint Pauls doctrine what doth he else mean, but utterly to seclude all kind of mans merits, and works of the law from the office & dignity of justifying? And although he expresseth not the word, Only, yet upon his exclusives and negatives, this exceptive must needs be inferred. For in all Logic the consequent is necessary and formal, as one man is suffered, to come into the house: and no person else is suffered but one Ergo, one man only is suffered to enter into the house. And thus much concerning faith in Christ, proved to be the only mean, or instrumental, or conditional cause of our salvation, and no other besides the same alone, by the doctrine of S. Paul taught to the ancient Romans.
And how then can that he accounted for any part of our iustification, which S. Paule vtterly debarreth and excludeth in that behalfe? of which like exclusiues and negatiues the whole course of S. Paules doctrine is full, where he still concludeth: Sine operibus, absque operibus legis, non exoperibus, Dei donum est,