CD Fifth Head Art. IV
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*Of the Perseverance of the Saints*
Although the weakness of the flesh can not prevail against the power of God, who confirms and preserves true believers in a state of grace, yet converts are not always so influenced and actuated by the Spirit of God as not in some particular instances sinfully to deviate from the guidance of divine grace, so as to be seduced by, and to comply with, the lusts of the flesh; they must therefore be constant in watching and prayer, that they be not led into temptation. When these are neglected, they are not only liable to be drawn into great and heinous sins by Satan, the world, and the flesh, 844
by the flesh, the world, and Satan (a carne, mundo, et Satana).
but sometimes by the righteous permission of God actually fall into these evils. This the lamentable fall of David, Peter, and other saints described in Holy Scriptures, demonstrates.
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Source
source-manifest/cd— Canons of Dort (1619) (PD, Schaff/RPDC 1840)- evidence_grade: D_doctrinal_textbook