{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/105/1050827.htm","path":"chr/ecf/105/1050827.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/105/1050827.htm","text":"Chapter 28 [XIV.]\u2014Many Without Crime, None Without Sin.\nAll these products of concupiscence, and the old guilt of concupiscence itself, are put away by the washing of baptism. And whatever that concupiscence now brings forth, if they are not those products which are called not only sins, but even crimes, are purified by that method of daily prayer when we say, \u201cForgive us our debts, as we forgive,\u201d and by the sincerity of alms-giving. For no one is so foolish as to say that that precept of our Lord does not refer to baptized people: \u201cForgive and it shall be forgiven you, give and it shall be given you.\u201d 2593 But none could rightly be ordained a minister in the Church if the apostle had said, \u201cIf any is without sin,\u201d where he says, \u201cIf any is without crime;\u201d 2594 or if he had said, \u201cHaving no sin,\u201d where he says, \u201cHaving no crime.\u201d 2595 Because many baptized believers are without crime, but I should say that no one in this life is without sin,\u2014however much the Pelagians are inflated, and burst asunder in madness against me because I say this: not because there remains anything of sin which is not remitted in baptism; but because by us who remain in the weakness of this life such sins do not cease daily to be committed, as are daily remitted to those who pray in faith and work in mercy. This is the soundness of the catholic faith, which the Holy Spirit everywhere sows,\u2014not the vanity and presumption of spirit of heretical pravity.","title":"Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Vol. V: A Treatise Agains...","type":"page"}