Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p><span class=\"smcap\">Chap. xi.</span>—16. But Cyprian was right in not being moved\r\nby what Jubaianus wrote, that \"the followers of Novatian\r\nrebaptize those who come to them from the Catholic Church.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_129_129\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_129_129\">[129]</a>\r\nFor, in the first place, it does not follow that whatever heretics\r\nhave done in a perverse spirit of mimicry, Catholics are therefore\r\nto abstain from doing, because the heretics do the same.\r\nAnd again, the reasons are different for which heretics and the\r\nCatholic Church ought respectively to abstain from rebaptizing.\r\nFor it would not be right for heretics to do so, even\r\nif it were fitting in the Catholic Church; because their argument\r\nis, that among the Catholics is wanting that which they\r\nthemselves received whilst still within the pale, and took\r\naway with them when they departed. Whereas the reason why\r\nthe Catholic Church should not administer again the baptism\r\nwhich was given among heretics, is that it may not seem to\r\ndecide that a power which is Christ's alone belongs to its members,\r\nor to pronounce that to be wanting in the heretics which\r\nthey have received within her pale, and certainly could not\r\nlose by straying outside. For thus much Cyprian himself, with\r\nall the rest, established, that if any should return from heresy\r\nto the Church, they should be received back, not by baptism,\r\nbut by the discipline of penitence; whence it is clear that they\r\ncannot be held to lose by their secession what is not restored\r\nto them when they return. Nor ought it for a moment to\r\nbe said that, as their heresy is their own, as their error is their\r\nown, as the sacrilege of disunion is their own, so also the\r\nbaptism is their own, which is really Christ's. Accordingly,\r\nwhile the evils which are their own are corrected when they\r\nreturn, so in that which is not theirs His presence should be\r\nrecognised, from whom it is.</p>","headings":["WRITINGS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DONATIST CONTROVERSY.","BOOK THIRD."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45843-paragraph-111"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"b0d6fc00e3e94045ec712246faf574dd08244d23decdb052fe7977a3dde4d82c","edition_title":"Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy","edition_translators":["John Richard King"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg45843-Footnote_129_129","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_129_129","source_ebook":45843,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_129_129\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_129_129\"><span class=\"label\">[129]</span></a> Cypr. <i>Ep.</i> lxxiii. sec. 2.</p></div>","source_sha256":"a7a04003f4d3c49eb73db6c5936713979fcecadd86884373a9914ac54373ac5b","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45843/pg45843-images.html#Footnote_129_129","text_sha256":"57c1f489380234504d330a98a63085a922e73880ea59f79aa2df976ff71fc455","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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