Perseverance of the Saints

Chapter 38.—What is the Nature of the Gift of Perseverance that is Now Given to the Saints. And thus God willed that His saints should not—even concerning perseverance in goodness itself—glory in the

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Chapter 1 [I.]—Of the Nature of the Perseverance Here Discoursed of. I Have now to consider the subject of perseverance with greater care; for in the former book also I said some things on this subje

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Many, when they think they are converted, seem to imagine that their work is done, and that there is nothing else needful in order to their going to heaven. Indeed perseverance in holiness of life is

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A Treatise on rebuke and grace, by aurelius augustin, bishop of hippo; In One Book, addressed to valentine, and with him to the monks of adrumetum. a.d. 426 or 427 ———————————— In the beginning

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It having been shown out of the Scripture, that it is only by faith, or the soul’s receiving and uniting to the Saviour who has wrought our righteousness, that we are justified; it therefore remains,

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It having been shown out of the Scripture, that it is only by faith, or the soul’s receiving and uniting to the Saviour who has wrought our righteousness, that we are justified; it therefore remains,

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Deut. v. 29. Deut. xxxii. 18, 19, 20. 1 Chron. xxviii. 9. Psal. lxxviii. 7, 8. 10, 11, 35, 36, 37, 41, 42, 56, &c. Psal. cvi. 3, 12-15. Psal. cxxv. 4, 5. Prov. xxvi. 11. Isa. lxiv. 5. Jer. xvii. 13. E

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Chapter 10—All Perseverance is God’s Gift. Is such an one as is unwilling to be rebuked still able to say, “What have I done,—I who have not received?” when it appears plainly that he has received, a

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Chapter 15.—Perseverance is Given to the End. Rightly follows the word to the kingdom of the elect: “If God be for us, who can be against us? He that spared not His own Son, but delivered Him up for

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Chapter 12.—They Who Have Not Received Perseverance are Not Distinguished from the Mass of Those that are Lost. And, consequently, both those who have not heard the gospel, and those who, having hear

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Chapter 11 [VII.]—They Who Have Not Received the Gift of Perseverance, and Have Relapsed into Mortal Sin and Have Died Therein, Must Righteously Be Condemned. If, then, these things be so, we still r

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Chapter 37.—To a Sound Will is Committed the Power of Persevering or of Not Persevering. As, therefore, the first man did not receive this gift of God,—that is, perseverance in good, but it was left

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Chapter 17 [VIII.]—Why Perseverance Should Be Given to One and Not Another is Inscrutable. Here, if I am asked why God should not have given them perseverance to whom He gave that love by which they

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Chapter 46.—A Man Who Does Not Persevere Fails by His Own Fault. But it is said, “It is by his own fault that any one deserts the faith, when he yields and consents to the temptation which is the cau

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Chapter 11.—Effect of Prayer for Perseverance. But, lest perchance it be said that perseverance even to the end is not indeed lost when it has once been given,—that is, when a man has persevered unto

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Chapter 3.—God is Besought for It, Because It is His Gift. But why is that perseverance asked for from God if it is not given by God? Is that, too, a mocking petition, when that is asked from Him whi

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Chapter 55.—Testimony of His Previous Writings and Letters. And, indeed, in that treatise of which the title is, Of Rebuke and Grace, On Rebuke and Grace, ch. 10. Matt. vi. 9. Two books to Simplic

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Chapter 10 [VI.]—The Gift of Perseverance Can Be Obtained by Prayer. But you write that “these brethren will not have this perseverance so preached as that it cannot be obtained by prayer or lost by

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Chapter 5.—The Second Petition in the Lord’s Prayer. What, when we say, “Thy kingdom come,” do we ask else, but that that should also come to us which we do not doubt will come to all saints? And the

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Chapter 6 [III.]—The Third Petition. How Heaven and Earth are Understood in the Lord’s Prayer. The third petition is, “Thy will be done in heaven and in earth;” or, as it is read in many codices, and

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