{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p><span class=\"smcap\">Chap. xiv.</span>—21. But we must not despair of the conversion\r\nof any man, whether situated within or without, so long\r\nas \"the goodness of God leadeth him to repentance,\"<a id=\"FNanchor_261_261\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_261_261\">[261]</a> and\r\n\"visits their transgressions with the rod, and their iniquity\r\nwith stripes.\" For in this way \"He does not utterly take\r\nfrom them His loving-kindness,\"<a id=\"FNanchor_262_262\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_262_262\">[262]</a> if they will themselves\r\nsometime \"love their own soul, pleasing God.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_263_263\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_263_263\">[263]</a> But as the\r\ngood man \"that shall endure to the end, the same shall be\r\nsaved,\"<a id=\"FNanchor_264_264\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_264_264\">[264]</a> so the bad man, whether within or without, who\r\nshall persevere in his wickedness to the end, shall not be\r\nsaved. Nor do we say that \"all, wheresoever and howsoever\r\nbaptized, obtain the grace of baptism,\"<a id=\"FNanchor_265_265\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_265_265\">[265]</a> if by the grace of\r\nbaptism is understood the actual salvation which is conferred\r\nby the celebration of the sacrament; but many fail to obtain\r\nthis salvation even within the Church, although it is clear that\r\nthey possess the sacrament, which is holy in itself. Well,\r\ntherefore, does the Lord warn us in the gospel that we should\r\nnot company with ill-advisers,<a id=\"FNanchor_266_266\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_266_266\">[266]</a> who walk under the pretence\r\nof Christ's name; but these are found both within and without,\r\nas, in fact, they do not proceed without unless they have first\r\nbeen ill-disposed within. And we know that the apostle said\r\nof the vessels placed in the great house, \"If a man therefore\r\npurge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honour,\r\nsanctified, and meet for the Master's use, and prepared unto\r\nevery good work.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_267_267\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_267_267\">[267]</a> But in what manner each man ought to\r\npurge himself from these he shows a little above, saying,<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_101\">[Pg 101]</a></span>\r\n\"Let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from\r\niniquity,\"<a id=\"FNanchor_268_268\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_268_268\">[268]</a> that he may not in the last day, with the chaff,\r\nwhether with that which has already been driven from the\r\nthreshing-floor, or with that which is to be separated at the\r\nlast, hear the command, \"Depart from me, ye that work\r\niniquity.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_269_269\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_269_269\">[269]</a> Whence it appears, indeed, as Cyprian says,\r\nthat \"we are not at once to admit and adopt whatsoever is\r\nprofessed in the name of Christ, but only what is done in the\r\ntruth of Christ.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_270_270\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_270_270\">[270]</a> But it is not an action done in the truth\r\nof Christ that men should \"seize on estates by fraudulent\r\npretences, and increase their gains by accumulated usury,\"<a id=\"FNanchor_271_271\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_271_271\">[271]</a>\r\nor that they should \"renounce the world in word only;\"<a id=\"FNanchor_272_272\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_272_272\">[272]</a> and\r\nyet, that all this is done within the Church, Cyprian himself\r\nbears sufficient testimony.</p>","headings":["WRITINGS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DONATIST CONTROVERSY.","BOOK FOURTH."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45843-paragraph-146"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"2c0efda6fc760db0d6b16077798288fd1e595fc9d623b65ea177b3f76b981e70","edition_title":"Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy","edition_translators":["John Richard King"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"MAT","chapter":24,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Matt. xxiv. 13","verse":13,"verse_end":13}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45843-Footnote_264_264","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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