2 Corinthians — Chapter 13
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Verse 5
5. Trie your selues.) We may know that we haue faith, but not that we are in grace. The Heretikes argue hereupon, that euery man may know himself certainly to be in grace: where the Apostle speaketh expresly and only of faith: the act whereof a man may know and feele to be in himself, because it is an act of vnderstanding, though he can not be assured that he hath his sinnes remitted, and that he is in al points in state of grace and saluation: because euery man that is of the Catholike faith, is not alwaies of good life agreable thereunto, nor the acts of our wil so subiect to vnderstanding, that we can know certainely whether we be good or euil. See S. Augustin to. 7. de perfect. iustitiæ c. 15. Li. de Cor. et grat. c. 13. & S. Thomas 1. 2. q. 112. art. 5.