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7. Omni peccator incredulitatis reus. — Stat in hoc mundo perversus quisque prædicator, quousque terreno vivit in corpore. Sed vitae suæ credere renuit, quia de Deo vera cognoscere contemnit. Vitæ enim suae crederet, si de conditoris sui substantia recte sentiret. Haec itaque superius de quolibet iniquo prolata dicebamus, sed repente ad erroris praedicatorem intellectum e vertimus. Unde sciendum est quia sic ad speciem ducimur, d ut nequaquam tamen a genere funditus evellamur.
七、「每個罪人都是不信之罪的擔負者。」——每一個邪僻的傳道者在這世界上站立，只要他還活在屬地的身體中。但他拒絕相信自己的生命，因為他輕看認識關於神的真理。因為他若對造物主的本質有正確的思想，就必相信自己的生命。所以上面這些話我們是當作論及任何惡人而說的，卻忽然把意思轉向謬誤的傳道者。因此當知道：我們如此被引向具體個例，但絕不因此就完全脫離了整體。
7. 'Every sinner is guilty of unbelief.' — Every perverse preacher stands in this world, so long as he lives in an earthly body. But he refuses to believe his own life, because he despises to know true things concerning God. For he would believe his own life, if he thought rightly concerning the substance of his Creator. These things therefore we said above as spoken of any wicked man whatsoever, but suddenly we turned the sense to the preacher of error. Whence it is to be known that we are thus led to the particular in such a way that we are by no means utterly torn away from the general.
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Nam perversus quisque etiam si rectam fidem in sinu universalis Ecclesiæ tenere videatur, stat, 537 ei vitae suae non credit, quia recta quidem sunt quæ per fidem de conditore intelligit, sed tamen fidei opera tenere contemnit; et incredulitatis redarguilur, quia ab eo quod se ostendit credere, vivendo reprobatur. Hinc enim per Joannem dicitur: Qui dicit se nosse Deum, et mandata ejus non custodit, mendax est (I Joan. II, 4). Hinc Paulus ait: Confitentur se nosse Deum, factis autem negant (Tit. i, ł6). Hinc Jacobus dicit: Fides sine operibus mortua est (Jac. II, 20, 26).
因為每一個邪僻之人，即使看似在聖而公之教會的懷中持守正信，站立著，卻不相信自己的生命，因為他藉信德所領悟關於造物主的事固然是正確的，但他卻輕看持守信德的行為；他就被定為不信之罪，因為他的生活否定了他所表白相信的。所以藉約翰說：「人若說我認識神，卻不遵守祂的誡命，便是說謊話的」（約壹二4）。所以保羅說：「他們口稱認識神，行事卻否認祂」（多一16）。所以雅各說：「信心若沒有行為就是死的」（雅二20、26）。
For every perverse man, even if he seem to hold the right faith in the bosom of the universal Church, stands, yet believes not his own life, because the things which he understands by faith concerning the Creator are indeed right, but nevertheless he despises to hold the works of faith; and he is convicted of unbelief, because by his living he is disproved of that which he shows himself to believe. For hence it is said through John: 'He who saith that he knoweth God, and keepeth not His commandments, is a liar' (1 John II, 4). Hence Paul says: 'They profess that they know God, but in their works they deny Him' (Tit. I, 16). Hence James says: 'Faith without works is dead' (James II, 20, 26).
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Sed inter hæc conditor mira dispensdione consilii et culpas respicit, et vivendi tempora impendit, ut longiora lemporalis vitae spatia aut converse fiant iu adljutorium muneris, aut non converso ad augmentum damnationis. Unde adhuc subditur:
但在這其中，造物主憑其智謀的奇妙安排，既顧念人的過犯，又賜下存活的時日，好叫今生較長的年日：若人悔改歸正，便成為對恩賜的助益；若不悔改歸正，便成為加增定罪的憑據。所以還加上說：
But amid these things the Creator, by the wondrous dispensation of His counsel, both regards the faults and bestows times of living, so that the longer spaces of temporal life may either, if the man be converted, become a help unto the gift, or, if he be not converted, unto the increase of damnation. Whence it is still further added: