Book V - Snyder Bible

The Preaching of Simeon Kefa 133
Chapter XXXVI: Self-Evidence of the Truth
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manner he is able to know what is true; but he who refuses
to submit to the rule of a reformed life and a pure behavior,
which truly is the proper result of knowledge of the truth, will
not confess that he knows what he does know. For this is exactly
what we see in the case of some who, abandoning the
trades which they learned in their youth, betake themselves to
other performances, and by way of excusing their own sloth,
elieve that whatever they hear is true?
cannot by any means gainsay it, but knows that what is spoken
is true, provided he also willingly submit to the rules of
life. But those who, when they hear, are unwilling to betake
themselves to good works, are prevented by the desire of
doing evil from acquiescing in those things which they judge
to be right. Hence it is manifest that it is in the power of the
hearers to choose which of the two they prefer. But if all who
hear were to obey, it would be rather a necessity of nature,
leading all in one way. For as no one can be persuaded to become
shorter or taller, because the force of nature does not
permit it; so also, if either all were converted to the truth by a
word, or all were not converted, it would be the force of nature
which compelled all in the one case, and none at all in the
Chapter XXXVII: Yahweh Righteous as Well as Good
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things it must be inquired what it is possible for man to find
out. For of necessity the judgment of Yahweh turns upon this,
if a man was able to do good and did it not. And therefore men
must inquire whether they have it in their power by seeking to
find what is good, and to do it when they have found it; for this
is that for which they are to be judged. But more than this