Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume VIII/Pseudo-Clementine Literature/The Clementine Homilies/Homily XI/Chapter 25

Chapter XXV.&#8212;Good Works to Be Well Done.

&#8220;Wherefore come readily, as a son to a father, that God may assign ignorance as the cause of your sins.&#160; But if after being called you will not, or delay, you shall be destroyed by the just judgment of God, not being willed, through your not willing.&#160; And do not think, though you were more pious than all the pious that ever were, but if you be unbaptized, that you shall ever obtain hope.&#160; For all the more, on this account, you shall endure the greater punishment, because you have done excellent works not excellently.&#160; For well-doing is excellent when it is done as God has commanded.&#160; But if you will not be baptized according to His pleasure, you serve your own will and oppose His counsel.