Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p><span class=\"smcap\">Chap. XXII.</span>—24. What if the holy and true Church of\r\nChrist were to convince and overcome you, even if we held\r\nno documents in support of our cause, or only such as were\r\nfalse, while you had possession of some genuine proofs of delivery\r\nof the sacred books? what would then remain for you,<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_249\">[Pg 249]</a></span>\r\nexcept that, if you would, you should show your love of peace,\r\nor otherwise should hold your tongues?<a id=\"FNanchor_673_673\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_673_673\">[673]</a> For whatever, in\r\nthat case, you might bring forward in evidence, I should be able\r\nto say with the greatest ease and the most perfect truth, that\r\nthen you are bound to prove as much to the full and catholic\r\nunity of the Church already spread abroad and established\r\nthroughout so many nations, to the end that you should\r\nremain within, and that those whom you convict should be\r\nexpelled. And if you have endeavoured to do this, certainly\r\nyou have not been able to make good your proof; and being\r\nvanquished or enraged, you have separated yourselves, with\r\nall the heinous guilt of sacrilege, from the guiltless men who\r\ncould not condemn on insufficient proof. But if you have\r\nnot even endeavoured to do this, then with most accursed\r\nand unnatural blindness you have cut yourselves off from the\r\nwheat of Christ, which grows throughout His whole fields,\r\nthat is, throughout the whole world, until the end, because\r\nyou have taken offence at a few tares in Africa.<a id=\"FNanchor_674_674\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_674_674\">[674]</a></p>","headings":["WRITINGS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DONATIST CONTROVERSY.","BOOK FIRST."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45843-paragraph-420"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"2745317c6d11d4377de4788bc27e1d539d9146c720fce76a444e0677207cf545","edition_title":"Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy","edition_translators":["John Richard King"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg45843-Footnote_674_674","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_674_674","source_ebook":45843,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_674_674\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_674_674\"><span class=\"label\">[674]</span></a> See below, <span class=\"smcap\">II.</span> xvi. 36, <span class=\"smcap\">III</span>. lvii. 69, lviii. 70; and <i>Contra Cresconium</i>, <span class=\"smcap\">III.</span>\r\nxxix. 33, <span class=\"smcap\">IV.</span> lvi. 66.</p></div>","source_sha256":"a7a04003f4d3c49eb73db6c5936713979fcecadd86884373a9914ac54373ac5b","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45843/pg45843-images.html#Footnote_674_674","text_sha256":"d9177ccb6a9cfd6592ddbcfa36c3ece3f0b1e46c695e9204074649b6019405a8","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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