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OF Free Iustification by Christ.
In Reading your Books, Hierom Osorius, con∣cerning Righteousness, though I had not leisure accurately to trace every particular, on which you have enlarged, yet by what I have here and there collected, I think I do well enough perceive whereat you drive, what you design, and what you endeavour: For, according to my apprehension, you are endeavouring, not to strike at some part of Christian Doctrine of smaller concernment, but to cut the very Throat, and extinguish the Breath and Spirit of the Gospel, and to besiege the whole state of our Fe∣licity, and the Castle and chief City of Christian Liberty, and to pluck up from the very Foundation all the Munitions of Peace and Life: For what other thing dost thou in all these ten Books, whereby thou snatchest away out of the Hands, Studies, Minds and Consci∣ences of Men, and out of the Earth. as the Sun out of the World, that most glorious Light of our Free Iustification, purchased by the great bounty of Christ, and confirmed by the Eternal