Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p><span class=\"smcap\">Chap. xv.</span>—22. To go on to the point which he pursues\r\nat great length, that \"they who blaspheme the Father of\r\nChrist cannot be baptized in Christ,\"<a id=\"FNanchor_273_273\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_273_273\">[273]</a> since it is clear that\r\nthey blaspheme through error (for he who comes to the baptism\r\nof Christ will not openly blaspheme the Father of Christ,\r\nbut he is led to blaspheme by holding a view contrary to the\r\nteaching of the truth about the Father of Christ), we have\r\nalready shown at sufficient length that baptism, consecrated\r\nin the words of the gospel, is not affected by the error of any\r\nman, whether ministrant or recipient, whether he hold views\r\ncontrary to the revelation of divine teaching on the subject of\r\nthe Father, or the Son, or the Holy Ghost. For many carnal\r\nand natural men are baptized even within the Church, as the\r\napostle expressly says: \"The natural man receiveth not the\r\nthings of the Spirit of God;\"<a id=\"FNanchor_274_274\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_274_274\">[274]</a> and after they had received\r\nbaptism, he says that they \"are yet carnal.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_275_275\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_275_275\">[275]</a> But according\r\nto its carnal sense, a soul given up to fleshly appetites cannot\r\nentertain but fleshly wisdom about God. Wherefore many,\r\nprogressing after baptism, and especially those who have been\r\nbaptized in infancy or early youth, in proportion as their\r\nintellect becomes clearer and brighter, while \"the inward<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_102\">[Pg 102]</a></span>\r\nman is renewed day by day,\"<a id=\"FNanchor_276_276\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_276_276\">[276]</a> throw away their former\r\nopinions which they held about God while they were mocked\r\nwith vain imaginings, with scorn and horror and confession of\r\ntheir mistake. And yet they are not therefore considered\r\nnot to have received baptism, or to have received baptism of\r\na kind corresponding to their error; but in them both the\r\nperfection of the sacrament is honoured and the delusion of\r\ntheir mind is corrected, even though it had become inveterate\r\nthrough long confirmation, or been, perhaps, maintained in\r\nmany controversies. Wherefore even the heretic, who is\r\nmanifestly without, if he has there received baptism as ordained\r\nin the gospel, has certainly not received baptism of a\r\nkind corresponding to the error which blinds him. And\r\ntherefore, if returning into the way of wisdom, he perceives\r\nthat he ought to relinquish what he has held amiss, he must\r\nnot at the same time give up the good which he had received;\r\nnor because his error is to be condemned, is the baptism of\r\nChrist in him to be therefore extinguished. For it is already\r\nsufficiently clear, from the case of those who happen to be\r\nbaptized within the Church with false views about God, that\r\nthe truth of the sacrament is to be distinguished from the\r\nerror of him who believes amiss, although both may be found\r\nin the same man. And therefore, when any one grounded in\r\nany error, even outside the Church, has yet been baptized with\r\nthe true sacrament, when he is restored to the unity of the\r\nChurch, a true baptism cannot take the place of a true baptism,\r\nas a true faith takes the place of a false one, because a\r\nthing cannot take the place of itself, since neither can it give\r\nplace. Heretics therefore join the Catholic Church to this\r\nend, that what they have evil of themselves may be corrected,\r\nnot that what they have good of God should be repeated.</p>","headings":["WRITINGS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DONATIST CONTROVERSY.","BOOK FOURTH."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45843-paragraph-147"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"c0fbb207aaea4c40db4cd112a973977ec8c6c2fc98fe03007b19afd293ab48df","edition_title":"Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy","edition_translators":["John Richard King"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg45843-Footnote_273_273","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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