Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p><span class=\"smcap\">Chap. xxviii.</span>—39. Hence, therefore, we have now set before\r\nus an easier and more simple consideration of that ark of which\r\nNoah was the builder and pilot. For Peter says that in the<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_148\">[Pg 148]</a></span>\r\nark of Noah, \"few, that is, eight souls, were saved by water.\r\nThe like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save\r\nus, (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the\r\nanswer of a good conscience towards God).\"<a id=\"FNanchor_389_389\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_389_389\">[389]</a> Wherefore, if\r\nthose appear to men to be baptized in Catholic unity who\r\nrenounce the world in words only and not in deeds, how do\r\nthey belong to the mystery of this ark in whom there is not\r\nthe answer of a good conscience? Or how are they saved\r\nby water, who, making a bad use of holy baptism, though they\r\nseem to be within, yet persevere to the end of their days in a\r\nwicked and abandoned course of life? Or how can they fail\r\nto be saved by water, of whom Cyprian himself records that\r\nthey were in time past simply admitted to the Church with\r\nthe baptism which they had received in heresy? For the\r\nsame unity of the ark saved them, in which no one has been\r\nsaved except by water. For Cyprian himself says, \"The Lord\r\nis able of His mercy to grant pardon, and not to sever from\r\nthe gifts of His Church those who, being in all simplicity\r\nadmitted to the Church, have fallen asleep within her pale.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_390_390\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_390_390\">[390]</a>\r\nIf not by water, how in the ark? If not in the ark, how in\r\nthe Church? But if in the Church, certainly in the ark; and\r\nif in the ark, certainly by water. It is therefore possible\r\nthat some who have been baptized without may be considered,\r\nthrough the foreknowledge of God, to have been really baptized\r\nwithin, because within the water begins to be profitable\r\nto them unto salvation; nor can they be said to have been\r\notherwise saved in the ark except by water. And again, some\r\nwho seemed to have been baptized within may be considered,\r\nthrough the same foreknowledge of God, more truly to have\r\nbeen baptized without, since, by making a bad use of baptism,\r\nthey die by water, which then happened to no one who was\r\nnot outside the ark. Certainly it is clear that, when we speak\r\nof within and without in relation to the Church, it is the\r\nposition of the heart that we must consider, not that of the\r\nbody, since all who are within in heart are saved in the\r\nunity of the ark through the same water, through which all\r\nwho are in heart without, whether they are also in body without\r\nor not, die as enemies of unity. As therefore it was not<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_149\">[Pg 149]</a></span>\r\nanother but the same water that saved those who were placed\r\nwithin the ark, and destroyed those who were left without the\r\nark, so it is not by different baptisms, but by the same, that\r\ngood Catholics are saved, and bad Catholics or heretics perish.\r\nBut what the most blessed Cyprian thinks of the Catholic\r\nChurch, and how the heretics are utterly crushed by his\r\nauthority, notwithstanding the much I have already said, I\r\nhave yet determined to set forth by itself, if God will, with\r\nsomewhat greater fulness and perspicuity, so soon as I shall\r\nhave first said about his Council what I think is due from\r\nme, which, in God's will, I shall attempt in the following\r\nbook.</p>","headings":["WRITINGS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DONATIST CONTROVERSY.","BOOK FIFTH."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45843-paragraph-200"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"246f7304278425af0568a61ca5abc96e595f3630608ea8ece0ec03bd6a7cbe65","edition_title":"Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy","edition_translators":["John Richard King"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg45843-Footnote_390_390","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_390_390","source_ebook":45843,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_390_390\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_390_390\"><span class=\"label\">[390]</span></a> Cypr. <i>Ep.</i> lxxiii. sec. 20.</p></div>","source_sha256":"a7a04003f4d3c49eb73db6c5936713979fcecadd86884373a9914ac54373ac5b","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45843/pg45843-images.html#Footnote_390_390","text_sha256":"8a943b918dc3aae5c47e2275204d213eac627fb85102134846f06d5145802202","verified":false,"work_id":null}

references: [] | work_id: | origin: existing-private-derived-record | source: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45843/pg45843-images.html#Footnote_390_390