☞ THE JUDGEMENT OF PHILIP MELANCHTHON concerning the article of the justification of man which is by faith only.☞ THE IVDGEMENTE OF PHILIP MELANCHTON concernynge the artycle of the iustyfycatyon of man which is by fayth only.

☞ THE JUDGEMENT OF PHILIP MELANCHTHON concerning the article of the justification of man which is by faith only.

☞ THE IVDGEMENTE OF PHILIP MELANCHTON concernynge the artycle of the iustyfycatyon of man which is by fayth only.

IN MY BOOK Entitled the common places of the scripture, my mind and entente was to declare and make open with all simplicity and plainness, as nigh as God would give me leave, all that the Prophets, and Apostles have written and taught, concerning the article of justification, intending now the self same thing because that that kind of matter is most peculiar and proper unto the Epistle of Paul unto the Romans purposing in some places thereof to speak more plainly.

IN MY BOKE ENtytuled the common places of the scripture, my mynde and entente was to declare and make open with all simplicitie and plainnesse, as nighe as God wolde gyue me leaue, all that the Prophettes, and Apostles haue written and taughte, concernynge the artycle of iustification, entendynge nowe the selfe same thynge bycause that that kynde of matter is mooste peculyer and proper vnto the Epystle of Paull vnto the Romains purposynge in some places thereof to speke more playnly.

THE Philosophers do call, Justice, a certain Obedience universal, as touching to all virtues, (that is to say) an outward honest discipline, the which a man by his own strength may and can perform. The which Justice,¹ Paul doeth call the Justice of the law, and the Justice ⟨image 11⟩of works. We have often times declared to you that God willeth and commandeth that all men shall be bound and as it were tied fast with an outward honest discipline, as Paul witness the saying. The law is made for the unjust, and the Lord doeth punish those which be offenders and breakers of this discipline, as be those, which are swearers, perjurious persons, blasphemers of the Lord, seditious, manquellers, whoremongers, thieves, and liars. It is true that Aristotle sayeth. Neither Hesperus, nor yet Lucifer, the night and the day star are not more beautiful and goodly, than Justice, that is to say honest discipline. It is forsooth a good ornament of man being no thing in the world that this weak nature of man can or may perform more excellent than this. But yet for all that, we must be certainly assured, that this discipline can not by any means satisfy, and perform all that the law doeth require,