Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p><span class=\"smcap\">Chap. XII.</span>—18. What if he approached baptism itself in\r\ndeceit? were his sins remitted, or were they not? Let them\r\nchoose which they will. Whichever they choose will answer our\r\npurpose. If they say they were remitted, how then shall \"the\r\nHoly Spirit of discipline flee deceit,\"<a id=\"FNanchor_40_40\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_40_40\">[40]</a> if in him who was full\r\nof deceit He worked remission of sins? If they say they were\r\nnot remitted, I ask whether, if he should afterwards confess\r\nhis sin with contrition of heart and true sorrow, it would be\r\njudged that he ought to be baptized again. And if it is\r\nmere madness to assert this, then let them confess that a\r\nman can be baptized with the true baptism of Christ, and\r\nthat yet his heart, persisting in malice or sacrilege, may not\r\nallow remission of sins to be given; and so let them understand\r\nthat men may be baptized in communions severed from\r\nthe Church, in which Christ's baptism is given and received\r\nin the said celebration of the sacrament, but that it will only\r\nthen be of avail for the remission of sins, when the recipient,\r\nbeing reconciled to the unity of the Church, is purged from\r\nthe sacrilege of deceit, by which his sins were retained, and\r\ntheir remission prevented. For, as in the case of him who\r\nhad approached the sacrament in deceit there is no second\r\nbaptism, but he is purged by faithful discipline and truthful\r\nconfession, which he could not be without baptism, so that\r\nwhat was given before becomes then powerful to work his\r\nsalvation, when the former deceit is done away by the truthful\r\nconfession; so also in the case of the man who, while\r\nan enemy to the peace and love of Christ, received in any\r\nheresy or schism the baptism of Christ, which the schismatics\r\nin question had not lost from among them, though by\r\nhis sacrilege his sins were not remitted, yet, when he corrects\r\nhis error, and comes over to the communion and unity of the\r\nChurch, he ought not to be again baptized: because by his\r\nvery reconciliation to the peace of the Church he receives this<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_20\">[Pg 20]</a></span>\r\nbenefit, that the sacrament now begins in unity to be of avail\r\nfor the remission of his sins, which could not so avail him as\r\nreceived in schism.</p>","headings":["WRITINGS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DONATIST CONTROVERSY.","BOOK FIRST."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45843-paragraph-62"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"d170732eaa71f17f82f268b8e59c87d72e52b3d9c6030cf8dfb288b28e10a86a","edition_title":"Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy","edition_translators":["John Richard King"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg45843-Footnote_40_40","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_40_40","source_ebook":45843,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_40_40\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_40_40\"><span class=\"label\">[40]</span></a> Wisd. i. 5.</p></div>","source_sha256":"a7a04003f4d3c49eb73db6c5936713979fcecadd86884373a9914ac54373ac5b","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45843/pg45843-images.html#Footnote_40_40","text_sha256":"bc1e6e27b2e70114eeff133dea541411626ff70a5c027f7a6b2f490b35a4a05c","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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