{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/105/1050152.htm","path":"chr/ecf/105/1050152.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/105/1050152.htm","text":"Chapter 3.\u2014Pelagius Makes God Unjust.\nWe are driven at last to yield our assent on divine authority to that which we are unable to investigate with even the clearest intellect. It is well that they remind us themselves that Christ\u2019s righteousness is unable to profit any but believers, while they yet allow that it somewhat profits infants; according to this (as we have already said) they must, without evasion, find room for baptized infants among the number of believers. Consequently, if they are not baptized, they will have to rank amongst those who do not believe; and therefore they will not even have life, but \u201cthe wrath of God abideth on them,\u201d inasmuch as \u201che that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him;\u201d 654 and they are under judgment, since \u201che that believeth not is condemned already;\u201d 655 and they shall be condemned, since \u201che that believeth, and is baptized, shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.\u201d 656 Let them, now, then see to it with what justice they can hold or strive to maintain that human beings have no part in eternal life, but in the wrath of God, and incur the divine judgment and condemnation, who are without sin; if, that is, as they cannot have any actual sin, so also they have within them no original sin.","title":"Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Vol. V: A Treatise on the...","type":"page"}