Against the Pelagians

⁷ The quotations from Scripture are now continued:

In <!--<span class="stiki"></span>-->1 John 1:5, John 1:7, 8, Matthew 5:14, Christ and the Apostles are called the Light of the world. The world therefore is darkness.

1 Tim. vi. 16. God only has immortality and is “only wise”; yet others, like the Prince of Tyre, are wise derivatively. So we are pure, but only by grace. Thus

1 John i. 7. The blood of Christ cleanses us.

<!--<span class="stiki"></span>-->Job 25:5, 6. The stars are not pure in his sight.

Gal. ii. 16. “By the law no flesh shall be justified;” but

<!--<span class="stiki"></span>-->Romans 3:1, 24, 28, 30. Being justified freely through His grace, etc.

vi. 14. Not under the law, but under grace.

ix. 16. Not of him that wills, but of God which shows mercy.

ix. 30-32. The Gentiles...attained to the righteousness by faith.

x. 2. Christ is the end of the law to every one that believes.