CD Third and Fourth Heads Art. XV

CON confession-article · status:draft · license:PD

*Of the Corruption of Man, his Conversion to God, and the Manner thereof*

God is under no obligation to confer this grace upon any; for how can he be indebted to man, who had no previous gift to bestow as a foundation for such recompense? Nay, who has nothing of his own but sin and falsehood. He, therefore, who becomes the subject of this grace owes eternal gratitude to God, and gives him thanks forever. Whoever is not made partaker thereof is either altogether regardless of these spiritual gifts and satisfied with his own condition, or is in no apprehension of danger, and vainly boasts the possession of that which he has not. With respect to those who make an external profession of faith and live regular lives, we are bound, after the example of the Apostle, to judge and speak of them in the most favorable manner; for the secret recesses of the heart are unknown to us. And as to others, who have not yet been called, it is our duty to pray for them to God, who calleth those things which be not as though they were. But we are in no wise to conduct ourselves towards them with haughtiness, as if we had made ourselves to differ.

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Source

source-manifest/cd — Canons of Dort (1619) (PD, Schaff/RPDC 1840)
evidence_grade: D_doctrinal_textbook

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part_of → Canons of Dort (1619) source-manifest/cd

precedes → CD Third and Fourth Heads Art. XVI confession-article/cd-34-16

translated_as → cd-34-15 (ko) language_pack/cd-34-15-ko

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CD Third and Fourth Heads Art. XIV precedes ←