{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/105/1050326.htm","path":"chr/ecf/105/1050326.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/105/1050326.htm","text":"Chapter 79 [LXVI.]\u2014A Certain Necessity of Sinning.\nBut let us revert to the apostle\u2019s assertion: \u201cThe love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.\u201d 1333 By whom given if not by Him who \u201cascended up on high, led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men?\u201d 1334 Forasmuch, however, as there is, owing to the defects that have entered our nature, not to the constitution of our nature, a certain necessary tendency to sin, a man should listen, and in order that the said necessity may cease to exist, learn to say to God, \u201cBring Thou me out of my necessities;\u201d 1335 because in the very offering up of such a prayer there is a struggle against the tempter, who fights against us concerning this very necessity; and thus, by the assistance of grace through our Lord Jesus Christ, both the evil necessity will be removed and full liberty be bestowed.","title":"Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Vol. V: A Treatise on Nat...","type":"page"}