{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>I have also met with some who are of opinion that such\r\nonly as neglect to cover their sins with alms-deeds shall be\r\npunished in everlasting fire; and they cite the words of the\r\nApostle James, \"He shall have judgment without mercy who\r\nhath shown no mercy.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_896_896\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_896_896\">[896]</a> Therefore, say they, he who has\r\nnot amended his ways, but yet has intermingled his profligate\r\nand wicked actions with works of mercy, shall receive mercy\r\nin the judgment, so that he shall either quite escape condemnation,\r\nor shall be liberated from his doom after some time\r\nshorter or longer. They suppose that this was the reason\r\nwhy the Judge Himself of quick and dead declined to mention\r\nanything else than works of mercy done or omitted, when\r\nawarding to those on His right hand life eternal, and to those\r\non His left everlasting punishment.<a id=\"FNanchor_897_897\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_897_897\">[897]</a> To the same purpose,\r\nthey say, is the daily petition we make in the Lord's prayer,\r\n\"Forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_898_898\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_898_898\">[898]</a> For, no\r\ndoubt, whoever pardons the person who has wronged him does\r\na charitable action. And this has been so highly commended\r\nby the Lord Himself, that He says, \"For if ye forgive men\r\ntheir trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you:\r\nbut if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your\r\nFather forgive your trespasses.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_899_899\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_899_899\">[899]</a> And so it is to this kind\r\nof alms-deeds that the saying of the Apostle James refers,\r\n\"He shall have judgment without mercy that hath shown no\r\nmercy.\" And our Lord, they say, made no distinction of\r\ngreat and small sins, but \"Your Father will forgive your sins,\r\nif ye forgive men theirs.\" Consequently they conclude that,\r\nthough a man has led an abandoned life up to the last day of\r\nit, yet whatsoever his sins have been, they are all remitted by\r\nvirtue of this daily prayer, if only he has been mindful to\r\nattend to this one thing, that when they who have done him\r\nany injury ask his pardon, he forgive them from his heart.</p>","headings":["THE CITY OF GOD.","BOOK TWENTY-FIRST.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45305-paragraph-712"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"11fe1db953093358ba9c055729f1df7a138dff80030935d25ac7aac56474a88b","edition_title":"The City of God, Volume II","edition_translators":["Marcus Dods","George Wilson (Books XVII-XVIII)"],"edition_year":1871,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"MAT","chapter":6,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Matt. vi. 14","verse":14,"verse_end":14}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45305-Footnote_899_899","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. Original transcription title leaves state T. & T. Clark, Edinburgh, 1871; printed translator allocation retained. Gutenberg credits Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries without an exact scan identifier. Full provider license preserved with acquired original; republication and per-work metadata remain unreviewed.","source_anchor":"Footnote_899_899","source_ebook":45305,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_899_899\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_899_899\"><span class=\"label\">[899]</span></a> Matt. vi. 14, 15.</p></div>","source_sha256":"7e0ced9e70512f3cf050b53c9d548e36b70d468d875153869f95d8aff5bbb530","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45305/pg45305-images.html#Footnote_899_899","text_sha256":"3b7137f2e22ec63395918f75667024888d7665853b98922f59dfcf9af766c5c7","verified":false,"work_id":null}