{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p><span class=\"smcap\">Chap. liii.</span>—121. <span class=\"smcap\">Petilianus</span> said: \"If you make prayer\r\nto God, or utter supplication, it profits you absolutely nothing\r\nwhatsoever. For your blood-stained conscience makes your\r\nfeeble prayers of no effect; because the Lord God regards\r\npurity of conscience more than the words of supplication,\r\naccording to the saying of the Lord Christ, 'Not every one that\r\nsaith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of\r\nheaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in\r\nheaven.'<a id=\"FNanchor_853_853\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_853_853\">[853]</a> The will of God unquestionably is good, for therefore\r\nwe pray as follows in the holy prayer, 'Thy will be done\r\nin earth, as it is in heaven,'<a id=\"FNanchor_854_854\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_854_854\">[854]</a> that, as His will is good, so it may\r\nconfer on us whatever may be good. You therefore do not\r\ndo the will of God, because you do what is evil every day.\"</p>","headings":["WRITINGS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DONATIST CONTROVERSY.","BOOK SECOND."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45843-paragraph-550"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"65943e67c6bbd15e27e3ecade5d446be9f7908cdfdf70776d6f6972fbf784a15","edition_title":"Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy","edition_translators":["John Richard King"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"MAT","chapter":7,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Matt. vii. 21","verse":21,"verse_end":21}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45843-Footnote_853_853","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. Title leaves identify J. R. King, T. & T. Clark, Edinburgh, 1872; catalog identifies translator John Richard King (1835-1907). Gutenberg credits Internet Archive/American Libraries without an exact scan identifier. Full provider license preserved with acquired original; republication and per-work metadata remain unreviewed.","source_anchor":"Footnote_853_853","source_ebook":45843,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_853_853\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_853_853\"><span class=\"label\">[853]</span></a> Matt. vii. 21.</p></div>","source_sha256":"a7a04003f4d3c49eb73db6c5936713979fcecadd86884373a9914ac54373ac5b","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45843/pg45843-images.html#Footnote_853_853","text_sha256":"c2ea54592eeb7052e4ef53da1b5f6cdc7dd2fbf80c97716b179de6e3c9767ddf","verified":false,"work_id":null}