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{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p><span class=\"smcap\">Chap. x.</span>—12. I ask, therefore, if sins were remitted by the\r\nbaptism of John, what more could the baptism of Christ confer\r\non those whom the Apostle Paul desired to be baptized with\r\nthe baptism of Christ after they had received the baptism of\r\nJohn? But if sins were not remitted by the baptism of John,\r\nwere those men in the days of Cyprian better than John, of\r\nwhom he says himself that they \"used to seize on estates by\r\ntreacherous frauds, and increase their gains by accumulated\r\nusuries,\"<a id=\"FNanchor_321_321\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_321_321\">[321]</a> through whose administration of baptism the remission\r\nof sins was yet conferred? Or was it because they were\r\ncontained within the unity of the Church? What then? Was\r\nJohn not contained within that unity, the friend of the Bridegroom,\r\nthe preparer of the way of the Lord, the baptizer of the\r\nLord Himself? Who will be mad enough to assert this?\r\nWherefore, although my belief is that John so baptized with\r\nthe water of repentance for the remission of sins, that those\r\nwho were baptized by him received the expectation of the\r\nremission of their sins, the actual remission taking place in\r\nthe baptism of the Lord,—just as the resurrection which is\r\nexpected at the last day is fulfilled in hope in us, as the\r\napostle says, that \"He hath raised us up together, and made\r\nus sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus;\"<a id=\"FNanchor_322_322\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_322_322\">[322]</a> and\r\nagain, \"For we are saved by hope;\"<a id=\"FNanchor_323_323\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_323_323\">[323]</a> or as again John himself,\r\nwhile he says, \"I indeed baptize you with water unto\r\nrepentance, for the remission of your sins,\"<a id=\"FNanchor_324_324\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_324_324\">[324]</a> yet says, on seeing\r\nour Lord, \"Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away\r\nthe sin of the world,\"<a id=\"FNanchor_325_325\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_325_325\">[325]</a>—nevertheless I am not disposed to\r\ncontend vehemently against any one who maintains that sins\r\nwere remitted even in the baptism of John, but that some\r\nfuller sanctification was conferred by the baptism of Christ on\r\nthose whom Paul ordered to be baptized anew.<a id=\"FNanchor_326_326\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_326_326\">[326]</a></p>","headings":["WRITINGS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DONATIST CONTROVERSY.","BOOK FIFTH."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45843-paragraph-171"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"c9eff67bfad77a33e8f6337fe515500ed06441184563643e3d02b205a206d883","edition_title":"Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy","edition_translators":["John Richard King"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg45843-Footnote_321_321","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_321_321","source_ebook":45843,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_321_321\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_321_321\"><span class=\"label\">[321]</span></a> Cypr. <i>Serm. de Lapsis</i>, c. iv.</p></div>","source_sha256":"a7a04003f4d3c49eb73db6c5936713979fcecadd86884373a9914ac54373ac5b","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45843/pg45843-images.html#Footnote_321_321","text_sha256":"958852dbbb9766aecb80e7a47407c55a59ab593151987c01ebbc51e9579b48c2","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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