{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p><span class=\"smcap\">Chap. vii.</span>—8. But if it is perfect madness to hold such\r\na view (for it is Christ always that justifieth the ungodly, by\r\nchanging his ungodliness into Christianity; it is from Christ\r\nalways that faith is received, Christ is always the origin of\r\nthe regenerate and the head of the Church), what weight,\r\nthen, will those words have, which thoughtless readers value\r\nby their sound, without inquiring what their inner meaning\r\nis? For the man who does not content himself with hearing<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_237\">[Pg 237]</a></span>\r\nthe words with his ear, but considers the meaning of the\r\nphrase, when he hears, \"What we look to is the conscience of\r\nthe giver, that it may cleanse the conscience of the recipient,\"\r\nwill answer, The conscience of man is often unknown to me,\r\nbut I am certain of the mercy of Christ: when he hears, \"He\r\nwho receives faith from the faithless receives not faith, but\r\nguilt,\" will answer, Christ is not faithless, from whom I receive\r\nnot guilt, but faith: when he hears, \"Everything consists of an\r\norigin and root; and if it have not something for a head, is\r\nnothing,\" will answer, My origin is Christ, my root is Christ,\r\nmy head is Christ. When he hears, \"Nor does anything well\r\nreceive second birth, unless it be born again of good seed,\" he\r\nwill answer, The seed of which I am born again is the Word\r\nof God, which I am warned to hear with attention, even\r\nthough he through whom I hear it does not himself do what\r\nhe preaches; according to the words of the Lord, which make\r\nme herein safe, \"All whatsoever they bid you observe, that\r\nobserve and do; but do not ye after their works: for they say,\r\nand do not.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_649_649\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_649_649\">[649]</a> When he hears, \"What perversity must it be,\r\nthat he who is guilty through his own sins should make\r\nanother free from guilt!\" he will answer, No one makes me\r\nfree from guilt but He who died for our sins, and rose again\r\nfor our justification. For I believe, not in the minister by whose\r\nhands I am baptized, but in Him who justifieth the ungodly,\r\nthat my faith may be counted unto me for righteousness.<a id=\"FNanchor_650_650\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_650_650\">[650]</a></p>","headings":["WRITINGS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DONATIST CONTROVERSY.","BOOK FIRST."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45843-paragraph-404"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"4a3243fdc09dd234381ea68abbab38535c98cd0b815b6d1f392517d22e8978e5","edition_title":"Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy","edition_translators":["John Richard King"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"ROM","chapter":4,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Rom. iv. 25","verse":25,"verse_end":25}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45843-Footnote_650_650","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_650_650","source_ebook":45843,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_650_650\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_650_650\"><span class=\"label\">[650]</span></a> Rom. iv. 25, 5.</p></div>","source_sha256":"a7a04003f4d3c49eb73db6c5936713979fcecadd86884373a9914ac54373ac5b","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45843/pg45843-images.html#Footnote_650_650","text_sha256":"589991d47cd0a864e7643b7625402b51f83434ebb7214ec416d88e2a00acca79","verified":false,"work_id":null}