Page:The Net of Faith.pdf/571

From Wikisource
Jump to navigation Jump to search
This page has been proofread, but needs to be validated.
181*

debt they cannot pay. And, since they are in no wise better than the pagans, they cannot be saved by their authority even though it be sanctioned by God unless they seek salvation in Christ's faith, as the Scripture says,

False is the king,
And the king cannot be saved  the
by/power
of his own authority.6

It says that the king is false, even though authority has been divinely bestowed upon him; . . . he shall not be saved on account of his injustice.


6 3-Esdras, 4:37.