Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>47. So it has been her wont to come to the aid of multitudes\r\nwho were perishing through schisms and heresies. This\r\ndispleased Lucifer,<a id=\"FNanchor_1263_1263\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1263_1263\">[1263]</a> when it was carried out in receiving and\r\nhealing those who had perished beneath the poison of the Arian\r\nheresy; and, being displeased at it, he fell into the darkness of\r\nschism, losing the light of Christian charity. In accordance\r\nwith this principle, the Church of Africa has recognised the\r\nDonatists from the very beginning, obeying herein the decree\r\nof the bishops who gave sentence in the Church at Rome\r\nbetween Cæcilianus and the party of Donatus; and having<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_517\">[Pg 517]</a></span>\r\ncondemned one bishop named Donatus,<a id=\"FNanchor_1264_1264\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1264_1264\">[1264]</a> who was proved to\r\nhave been the author of the schism, they determined that the\r\nothers should be received, after correction, with full recognition\r\nof their orders, even if they had been ordained outside\r\nthe Church,—not that they could have the Holy Spirit even\r\noutside the unity of the body of Christ, but, in the first place,\r\nfor the sake of those whom it was possible they might deceive\r\nwhile they remained outside, and prevent from obtaining\r\nthat gift; and, secondly, that their own weakness also being\r\nmercifully received within, might thus be rendered capable of\r\ncure, no obstinacy any longer standing in the way to close\r\ntheir eyes against the evidence of truth. For what other\r\nintention could have given rise to their own conduct, when\r\nthey received with full recognition of their orders the followers\r\nof Maximianus, whom they had condemned as guilty of sacrilegious\r\nschism, as their council<a id=\"FNanchor_1265_1265\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1265_1265\">[1265]</a> shows, and to fill whose places\r\nthey had already ordained other men, when they saw that the\r\npeople did not depart from their company, that all might not\r\nbe involved in ruin? And on what other ground did they\r\nneither speak against nor question the validity of the baptism\r\nwhich had been administered outside by men whom they had\r\ncondemned? Why, then, do they wonder, why do they complain,\r\nand make it the subject of their calumnies, that we\r\nreceive them in such wise to promote the true peace of Christ,\r\nwhile yet they do not remember what they themselves have\r\ndone to promote the false peace of Donatus, which is opposed\r\nto Christ? For if this act of theirs be borne in mind, and\r\nintelligently used in argument against them, they will have\r\nno answer whatsoever that they can make.</p>","headings":["WRITINGS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DONATIST CONTROVERSY.","A TREATISE CONCERNING THE CORRECTION OF THE DONATISTS; FORMING EPISTLE 185 IN MIGNE'S EDITION OF AUGUSTINE'S WORKS."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45843-paragraph-801"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"f29d65e74ad9fdfc13c52a723e81fa1e7a422904cea52cae11d569844feb0219","edition_title":"Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy","edition_translators":["John Richard King"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg45843-Footnote_1264_1264","license_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/policy/license.html","public_import_allowed":false,"record_kind":"original-editor-translator-note","review_required":["work and recension attribution","original-work chronology","Bible reference numbering and citation kind","English edition rights and attribution"],"review_status":"needs_review","rights_evidence":"Provider catalog reports public domain in the USA. Title leaves identify J. R. King, T. & T. Clark, Edinburgh, 1872; catalog identifies translator John Richard King (1835-1907). Gutenberg credits Internet Archive/American Libraries without an exact scan identifier. Full provider license preserved with acquired original; republication and per-work metadata remain unreviewed.","source_anchor":"Footnote_1264_1264","source_ebook":45843,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_1264_1264\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_1264_1264\"><span class=\"label\">[1264]</span></a> The Bishop of Casæ Nigræ.</p></div>","source_sha256":"a7a04003f4d3c49eb73db6c5936713979fcecadd86884373a9914ac54373ac5b","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45843/pg45843-images.html#Footnote_1264_1264","text_sha256":"8b862a25e241fb9955f7a60618517fc2742028f458442adf894196d9e7ce04a5","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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