Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p><span class=\"smcap\">Chap. VII.</span>—9. For, in the next place, that I may not seem\r\nto rest on mere human arguments,—since there is so much\r\nobscurity in this question, that in earlier ages of the Church,\r\nbefore the schism of Donatus, it has caused men of great\r\nweight, and even bishops whose hearts were full of charity, so\r\nto dispute and doubt among themselves, saving always the\r\npeace of the Church, that the several statutes of their Councils\r\nin their different districts long varied from each other, till at\r\nlength the most wholesome opinion was established, to the\r\nremoval of all doubts, by a general Council of the whole\r\nworld:<a id=\"FNanchor_15_15\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_15_15\">[15]</a>—I therefore bring forward from the gospel clear\r\nproofs, by which I propose, with God's help, to prove how\r\nrightly and truly in the sight of God it has been determined,\r\nthat in the case of every schismatic and heretic, the wound\r\nwhich caused his separation should be cured by the medicine\r\nof the Church; but that what remained sound in him should\r\nrather be recognised with approbation, than wounded by condemnation.\r\nIt is indeed true that the Lord says in the\r\ngospel, \"He that is not with me is against me; and he that\r\ngathereth not with me scattereth abroad.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_16_16\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_16_16\">[16]</a> Yet when the\r\ndisciples had brought word to Him that they had seen one\r\ncasting out devils in His name, and had forbidden him, because\r\nhe followed not them, He said, \"Forbid him not: for\r\nhe that is not against us is for us. For there is no man which\r\nshall do a miracle in my name, that can lightly speak evil of\r\nme.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_17_17\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_17_17\">[17]</a> If, indeed, there were nothing in this man requiring\r\ncorrection, then any one would be safe, who, setting himself\r\noutside the communion of the Church, severing himself from\r\nall Christian brotherhood, should gather in Christ's name; and\r\nso there would be no truth in this, \"He that is not with me\r\nis against me; and he that gathereth not with me scattereth\r\nabroad.\" But if he required correction in the point where<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_12\">[Pg 12]</a></span>\r\nthe disciples in their ignorance were anxious to check him,\r\nwhy did our Lord, by saying, \"Forbid him not,\" prevent this\r\ncheck from being given? And how can that be true which\r\nHe then says, \"He that is not against you is for you?\" For\r\nin this point he was not against, but for them, when he was\r\nworking miracles of healing in Christ's name. That both,\r\ntherefore, should be true, as both are true,—both the declaration,\r\nthat \"he that is not with me is against me, and he that\r\ngathereth not with me scattereth abroad;\" and also the injunction,\r\n\"Forbid him not; for he that is not against you is\r\nfor you,\"—what must we understand, except that the man was\r\nto be confirmed in his veneration for that mighty Name, in\r\nrespect of which he was not against the Church, but for it;\r\nand yet he was to be blamed for separating himself from the\r\nChurch, whereby his gathering became a scattering; and if\r\nit should have so happened that he sought union with the\r\nChurch, he should not have received what he already possessed,\r\nbut be made to set right the points wherein he had\r\ngone astray?</p>","headings":["WRITINGS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DONATIST CONTROVERSY.","BOOK FIRST."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45843-paragraph-53"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"f80342ebb1e260548046881ef34bc3724a1a139efd884da59f19b5a27460bc2b","edition_title":"Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy","edition_translators":["John Richard King"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg45843-Footnote_15_15","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. 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