Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p><span class=\"smcap\">Chap. XIX.</span>—29. But that I may not seem to be uttering\r\nthese praises of the blessed martyr (which, indeed, are not\r\nhis, but rather those of Him by whose grace he showed himself\r\nwhat he was), in order to escape the burden of proof, let\r\nus now bring forward from his letters the testimony by which<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_30\">[Pg 30]</a></span>\r\nthe mouths of the Donatists may most of all be stopped.\r\nFor they advance his authority before the unlearned, to show\r\nthat in a manner they do well when they baptize afresh the\r\nfaithful who come to them. Too wretched are they—and,\r\nunless they correct themselves, even by themselves are they\r\nutterly condemned—who choose in the example set them by\r\nso great a man to imitate just that fault, which only did not\r\ninjure him, because he walked with constant steps even to\r\nthe end in that from which they have strayed who \"have not\r\nknown the ways of peace.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_61_61\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_61_61\">[61]</a> It is true that Christ's baptism is\r\nholy; and although it may exist among heretics or schismatics,\r\nyet it does not belong to the heresy or schism; and therefore\r\neven those who come from thence to the Catholic Church\r\nherself ought not to be baptized afresh. Yet to err on this\r\npoint is one thing; it is another thing that those who are\r\nstraying from the peace of the Church, and have fallen headlong\r\ninto the pit of schism, should go on to decide that any\r\nwho join them ought to be baptized again. For the former\r\nis a speck on the brightness of a holy soul which abundance\r\nof charity<a id=\"FNanchor_62_62\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_62_62\">[62]</a> would fain have covered; the latter is a stain in\r\ntheir nether foulness which the hatred of peace in their\r\ncountenance ostentatiously brings to light. But the subject\r\nfor our further consideration, relating to the authority of the\r\nblessed Cyprian, we will commence from a fresh beginning.</p>","headings":["WRITINGS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DONATIST CONTROVERSY.","BOOK FIRST."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45843-paragraph-73"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"2687ae05dc7d4302732530b6640f79fa072bd0e7776800d242fc0eb166d42e85","edition_title":"Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy","edition_translators":["John Richard King"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg45843-Footnote_62_62","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_62_62","source_ebook":45843,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_62_62\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_62_62\"><span class=\"label\">[62]</span></a> Charitatis ubera.</p></div>","source_sha256":"a7a04003f4d3c49eb73db6c5936713979fcecadd86884373a9914ac54373ac5b","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45843/pg45843-images.html#Footnote_62_62","text_sha256":"fa429f5451040bb97168c01dd2d378bbdfa0d342bceca9d9189c35a068e3a931","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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