{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p><span class=\"smcap\">Chap. vii.</span>—8. Whilst we bear the testimony of God to\r\nthis and the like effect against the vain speaking of men, we\r\nare forced to undergo bitter insults from the enemies of the\r\nglory of Christ. Let them say what they will, whilst He\r\nexhorts us, saying, \"Blessed are they which are persecuted\r\nfor righteousness' sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.\r\nBlessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you,\r\nand shall say all manner of evil against you falsely for my\r\nsake.\" What He says in the first instance, \"for righteousness'\r\nsake,\" He has repeated in the words that He uses afterwards,\r\n\"for my sake;\" seeing that He \"is made unto us\r\nwisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:\r\nthat, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory\r\nin the Lord.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_1062_1062\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1062_1062\">[1062]</a> And when He says, \"Rejoice, and be exceeding\r\nglad, for great is your reward in heaven,\"<a id=\"FNanchor_1063_1063\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1063_1063\">[1063]</a> if I hold in a<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_415\">[Pg 415]</a></span>\r\ngood conscience what is said \"for righteousness' sake,\" and\r\n\"for my sake,\" whosoever wilfully detracts from my reputation\r\nis against his will contributing to my reward. For\r\nneither did He only instruct me by His word, without also\r\nconfirming me by His example. Follow the faith of the\r\nholy Scriptures, and you will find that Christ rose from the\r\ndead, ascended into heaven, sitteth at the right hand of the\r\nFather. Follow the charges brought by His enemies, and\r\nyou will presently believe that He was stolen from the\r\nsepulchre by His disciples. Why then should we, while\r\ndefending His house to the best of the abilities given us by\r\nGod, expect to meet with any other treatment from His\r\nenemies? \"If they have called the Master of the house\r\nBeelzebub, how much more shall they call them of His household?\"<a id=\"FNanchor_1064_1064\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1064_1064\">[1064]</a>\r\nIf, therefore, we suffer, we shall also reign with\r\nHim. But if it be not only the wrath of the accuser that\r\nstrikes the ear, but also the truth of the accusation that stings\r\nthe conscience, what does it profit me if the whole world were\r\nto exalt me with perpetual praise? So neither the eulogy of\r\nhim who praises has power to heal a guilty conscience, nor\r\ndoes the insult of him who reviles wound the good conscience.\r\nNor, however, is your hope which is in the Lord deceived, even\r\nthough we chance to be in secret what our enemies wish us\r\nto be thought; for you have not placed your hope in us, nor\r\nhave you ever heard from us any doctrine of the kind. You\r\ntherefore are safe, whatever we may be, who have learned to\r\nsay, \"I have trusted in the Lord; therefore I shall not slide;\"<a id=\"FNanchor_1065_1065\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1065_1065\">[1065]</a>\r\nand \"In God have I put my trust: I will not be afraid what\r\nman can do unto me.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_1066_1066\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1066_1066\">[1066]</a> And to those who endeavour to lead\r\nyou astray to the earthly heights of proud men, you know\r\nhow to answer, \"In the Lord put I my trust: how say ye to\r\nmy soul, Flee as a bird to your mountain?\"<a id=\"FNanchor_1067_1067\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1067_1067\">[1067]</a></p>","headings":["WRITINGS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DONATIST CONTROVERSY.","BOOK THIRD."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45843-paragraph-685"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"e83c20b1f761ff686d38f9ff09cc44cdd0468fbceed8de7ab49183e110626643","edition_title":"Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy","edition_translators":["John Richard King"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"PSA","chapter":11,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Ps. xi. 1","verse":1,"verse_end":1}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45843-Footnote_1067_1067","license_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/policy/license.html","public_import_allowed":false,"record_kind":"original-editor-translator-note","review_required":["work and recension attribution","original-work chronology","Bible reference numbering and citation kind","English edition rights and attribution"],"review_status":"needs_review","rights_evidence":"Provider catalog reports public domain in the USA. 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