{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>4. But how, again, shall they have any certainty about the\r\ngood who are to give them faith, if what we look to is the\r\nconscience of the giver, which is unseen by the eyes of the proposed\r\nrecipient? Therefore, according to their judgment, the\r\nsalvation of the spirit is made uncertain, so long as in opposition\r\nto the holy Scriptures, which say, \"It is better to trust\r\nin the Lord than to put confidence in man,\"<a id=\"FNanchor_640_640\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_640_640\">[640]</a> and, \"Cursed be\r\nthe man that trusteth in man,\"<a id=\"FNanchor_641_641\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_641_641\">[641]</a> they remove the hope of\r\nthose who are to be baptized from the Lord their God, and\r\npersuade them that it should be placed in man; the practical\r\nresult of which is, that their salvation becomes not merely\r\nuncertain, but actually null and void. For \"salvation belongeth\r\nunto the Lord,\"<a id=\"FNanchor_642_642\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_642_642\">[642]</a> and \"vain is the help of man.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_643_643\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_643_643\">[643]</a>\r\nTherefore, whosoever places his trust in man, even in one\r\nwhom he knows to be just and innocent, is accursed. Whence\r\nalso the Apostle Paul finds fault with those who said they\r\nwere of Paul, saying, \"Was Paul crucified for you? or were\r\nye baptized in the name of Paul?\"<a id=\"FNanchor_644_644\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_644_644\">[644]</a></p>","headings":["WRITINGS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DONATIST CONTROVERSY.","BOOK FIRST."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45843-paragraph-400"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"8f39b94fa03b2c7f43ca45001919fd6309d3f5ddb47e3173a3be03f30099f18e","edition_title":"Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy","edition_translators":["John Richard King"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"JER","chapter":17,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Jer. xvii. 5","verse":5,"verse_end":5}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45843-Footnote_641_641","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_641_641","source_ebook":45843,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_641_641\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_641_641\"><span class=\"label\">[641]</span></a> Jer. xvii. 5.</p></div>","source_sha256":"a7a04003f4d3c49eb73db6c5936713979fcecadd86884373a9914ac54373ac5b","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45843/pg45843-images.html#Footnote_641_641","text_sha256":"d6732893897206433969b3d53dd61d55b99df3fa08029334a447aea4236090e0","verified":false,"work_id":null}