Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p><span class=\"smcap\">Chap. vi.</span>—8. Between us, then, and what we may call the\r\ngenuine<a id=\"FNanchor_14_14\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_14_14\">[14]</a> Donatists, whose bishop is Primianus at Carthage,\r\nthere is now no controversy on this point. For God willed\r\nthat it should be ended by means of the followers of Maximianus,\r\nthat they should be compelled by the precedent of his\r\ncase to acknowledge what they would not allow at the persuasion\r\nof Christian charity. But this brings us to consider\r\nnext, whether those men do not seem to have something to\r\nsay for themselves, who refuse communion with the party of\r\nPrimianus, contending that in their body there remains greater\r\nsincerity of Donatism, just in proportion to the paucity of\r\ntheir numbers. And even if these were only the party of\r\nMaximianus, we should not be justified in despising their\r\nsalvation. How much more, then, are we bound to consider\r\nit, when we find that this same party of Donatus is split up\r\ninto many most minute fractions, all which small sections of\r\nthe body blame the one much larger portion which has Primianus\r\nfor its head, because they receive the baptism of the\r\nfollowers of Maximianus; while each endeavours to maintain\r\nthat it is the sole receptacle of true baptism, which exists\r\nnowhere else, neither in the whole of the world where the\r\nCatholic Church extends itself, nor in that larger main body\r\nof the Donatists, nor even in the other minute sections, but\r\nonly in itself. Whereas, if all these fragments would listen\r\nnot to the voice of man, but to the most unmistakeable manifestation\r\nof the truth, and would be willing to curb the fiery\r\ntemper of their own perversity, they would return from their\r\nown barrenness, not indeed to the main body of Donatus, a<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_11\">[Pg 11]</a></span>\r\nmere fragment of which they are a smaller fragment, but to\r\nthe never-failing fruitfulness of the root of the Catholic\r\nChurch. For all of them who are not against us are for\r\nus; but when they gather not with us, they scatter abroad.</p>","headings":["WRITINGS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DONATIST CONTROVERSY.","BOOK FIRST."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45843-paragraph-52"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"2ef68f1749ce387eed983ba22a9aaca8311a5930e0cc7d0a14ba41724ebd6d8b","edition_title":"Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy","edition_translators":["John Richard King"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg45843-Footnote_14_14","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_14_14","source_ebook":45843,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_14_14\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_14_14\"><span class=\"label\">[14]</span></a> Quodam modo cardinales Donatistas.</p></div>","source_sha256":"a7a04003f4d3c49eb73db6c5936713979fcecadd86884373a9914ac54373ac5b","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45843/pg45843-images.html#Footnote_14_14","text_sha256":"aae21a54b1a6c5f11b4ad6a606ce9acde9b25c669df26c4267adbf6b8edb4f4f","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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