The Saints United Confession in Disparagement of their Own Righteousness, Half title – Title page
Mr. Foxcroft's SERMON ON The Saints united Confeſſion, In Diſparagement of their own Righteouſneſs.
HUMILIS CONFESSIO: The Saints united Confeſſion, in Diſparagement of their own Righteouſneſs.
A SERMON Preach'd (ſummarily) at the Tueſday-Evening Lecture in Brattle-Street, Boſton, Jan. 30. 1749, 50. REPRESENTING The commonly receiv'd PROTESTANT Senſe & Uſe of two Scripture-Paſſages, which depreciate all our perſonal Righteouſneſſes, under the Compariſon of filthy Rags, and of deſpicable Dung. IN Oppoſition to POPISH Abuſe and Calumny.
By Thomas Foxcroft, M.A. One of the Paſtors of the Old Church in Boſton.
Haec eſt Hominis vera Sapientia, IMPERFECTUM eſſe Se noſſe.—
HIERON. adv. Pelag.
Ad VIRTUTIS Perfectionem pertinent etiam ipſius IMPERFECTIONIS & in veritate Agnitio & in humilitate Confeſſio.
AUGUST.
Our very Virtues may be a Snare to us.— No Man's Caſe ſo dangerous, as his, whom Satan hath perſuaded, that his own Righteouſneſs ſhall preſent him pure and blameleſs in the Sight of God.—We acknowledge a dutiful Neceſſity of doing well; but the meritorious Dignity of doing well we utterly renounce.
R. HOOKER, Eccl. Pol.
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