{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>But, irrespective of the miseries which in this life are\r\ncommon to the good and bad, the righteous undergo labours\r\npeculiar to themselves, in so far as they make war upon their\r\nvices, and are involved in the temptations and perils of such\r\na contest. For though sometimes more violent and at other\r\ntimes slacker, yet without intermission does the flesh lust\r\nagainst the spirit and the spirit against the flesh, so that we\r\ncannot do the things we would,<a id=\"FNanchor_1012_1012\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1012_1012\">[1012]</a> and extirpate all lust, but\r\ncan only refuse consent to it, as God gives us ability, and so\r\nkeep it under, vigilantly keeping watch lest a semblance of<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_522\">[Pg 522]</a></span>\r\ntruth deceive us, lest a subtle discourse blind us, lest error\r\ninvolve us in darkness, lest we should take good for evil or\r\nevil for good, lest fear should hinder us from doing what we\r\nought, or desire precipitate us into doing what we ought not,\r\nlest the sun go down upon our wrath, lest hatred provoke us\r\nto render evil for evil, lest unseemly or immoderate grief\r\nconsume us, lest an ungrateful disposition make us slow to\r\nrecognise benefits received, lest calumnies fret our conscience,\r\nlest rash suspicion on our part deceive us regarding a friend,\r\nor false suspicion of us on the part of others give us too much\r\nuneasiness, lest sin reign in our mortal body to obey its\r\ndesires, lest our members be used as the instruments of unrighteousness,\r\nlest the eye follow lust, lest thirst for revenge\r\ncarry us away, lest sight or thought dwell too long on some\r\nevil thing which gives us pleasure, lest wicked or indecent\r\nlanguage be willingly listened to, lest we do what is pleasant\r\nbut unlawful, and lest in this warfare, filled so abundantly\r\nwith toil and peril, we either hope to secure victory by our\r\nown strength, or attribute it when secured to our own strength,\r\nand not to His grace of whom the apostle says, \"Thanks be\r\nunto God, who giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus\r\nChrist;\"<a id=\"FNanchor_1013_1013\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1013_1013\">[1013]</a> and in another place he says, \"In all these things\r\nwe are more than conquerors through Him that loved us.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_1014_1014\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1014_1014\">[1014]</a>\r\nBut yet we are to know this, that however valorously we\r\nresist our vices, and however successful we are in overcoming\r\nthem, yet as long as we are in this body we have always\r\nreason to say to God, \"Forgive us our debts.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_1015_1015\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1015_1015\">[1015]</a> But in that\r\nkingdom where we shall dwell for ever, clothed in immortal\r\nbodies, we shall no longer have either conflicts or debts,—as\r\nindeed we should not have had at any time or in any condition,\r\nhad our nature continued upright as it was created.\r\nConsequently even this our conflict, in which we are exposed\r\nto peril, and from which we hope to be delivered by a final\r\nvictory, belongs to the ills of this life, which is proved by the\r\nwitness of so many grave evils to be a life under condemnation.</p>","headings":["THE CITY OF GOD.","BOOK TWENTY-SECOND.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45305-paragraph-825"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"e45d222d6caec79e3ed0c1f1b5b89531b399c68023828dcc8b615aab899902be","edition_title":"The City of God, Volume II","edition_translators":["Marcus Dods","George Wilson (Books XVII-XVIII)"],"edition_year":1871,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"ROM","chapter":8,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Rom. viii. 37","verse":37,"verse_end":37}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45305-Footnote_1014_1014","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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