{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>40. Accordingly, He so now cleanses His Church by the\r\nwashing of water in the word, that He may hereafter show it\r\nto Himself as not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing,—altogether\r\nbeautiful, that is to say, and in absolute perfection,\r\nwhen death shall be \"swallowed up in victory.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_1249_1249\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1249_1249\">[1249]</a> Now, therefore,\r\nin so far as the life is flourishing within us that proceeds\r\nfrom our being born of God, living by faith, so far we are\r\nrighteous; but in so far as we drag along with us the traces\r\nof our mortal nature as derived from Adam, so far we cannot\r\nbe free from sin. For there is truth both in the statement\r\nthat \"whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin,\"<a id=\"FNanchor_1250_1250\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1250_1250\">[1250]</a> and\r\nalso in the former statement, that \"if we say that we have\r\nno sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_1251_1251\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1251_1251\">[1251]</a>\r\nThe Lord Jesus, therefore, is both righteous and able to justify;\r\nbut we are justified freely by no other grace than His.<a id=\"FNanchor_1252_1252\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1252_1252\">[1252]</a> For\r\nthere is nothing that justifieth save His body, which is the\r\nChurch; and therefore, if the body of Christ bears off the\r\nspoils of the unrighteous, and the riches of the unrighteous\r\nare laid up in store as treasures for the body of Christ, the\r\nunrighteous ought not therefore to remain outside, but rather\r\nto enter within, that so they may be justified.</p>","headings":["WRITINGS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DONATIST CONTROVERSY.","A TREATISE CONCERNING THE CORRECTION OF THE DONATISTS; FORMING EPISTLE 185 IN MIGNE'S EDITION OF AUGUSTINE'S WORKS."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45843-paragraph-794"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"260ae268f0075047572856012e11283510e628a0c5f9e9f9c20b206a2b768be5","edition_title":"Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy","edition_translators":["John Richard King"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"1JN","chapter":1,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"1 John i. 8","verse":8,"verse_end":8}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45843-Footnote_1251_1251","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_1251_1251","source_ebook":45843,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_1251_1251\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_1251_1251\"><span class=\"label\">[1251]</span></a> 1 John i. 8.</p></div>","source_sha256":"a7a04003f4d3c49eb73db6c5936713979fcecadd86884373a9914ac54373ac5b","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45843/pg45843-images.html#Footnote_1251_1251","text_sha256":"0b015b7e9211016966b1dc281e07764e757c5e314d9ab9e462589433d85fcb7c","verified":false,"work_id":null}