Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p><span class=\"smcap\">Chap. xiii.</span>—18. But as regards the remission of sins,\r\nwhether it is granted through baptism at the hands of the\r\nheretics, I have already expressed my opinion on this point\r\nin a former book,<a id=\"FNanchor_131_131\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_131_131\">[131]</a> but I will shortly recapitulate it here.\r\nIf remission of sins is there conferred by the sacredness of\r\nbaptism, the sins return again through obstinate perseverance\r\nin heresy or schism; and therefore such men must needs\r\nreturn to the peace of the Catholic Church, that they may<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_65\">[Pg 65]</a></span>\r\ncease to be heretics and schismatics, and deserve that those sins\r\nwhich had returned on them should be cleansed away by love\r\nworking in the bond of unity. But if, although among\r\nheretics and schismatics it be still the same baptism of Christ,\r\nit yet cannot work remission of sins owing to this same foulness\r\nof discord and wickedness of dissent, then the same\r\nbaptism begins to be of avail for the remission of sins when\r\nthey come to the peace of the Church,—[not]<a id=\"FNanchor_132_132\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_132_132\">[132]</a> that what has\r\nbeen already truly remitted should not be retained; nor that\r\nheretical baptism should be repudiated as belonging to a different\r\nreligion, or as being different from our own, so that a\r\nsecond baptism should be administered; but that the very\r\nsame baptism, which was working death by reason of discord\r\noutside the Church, may work salvation by reason of the\r\npeace within. It was, in fact, the same savour of which the\r\napostle says, \"We are a sweet savour of Christ in every\r\nplace;\" and yet, says he, \"both in them that are saved, and\r\nin them that perish. To the one we are the savour of life\r\nunto life; and to the other the savour of death unto death.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_133_133\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_133_133\">[133]</a>\r\nAnd although he used these words with reference to another\r\nsubject, I have applied them to this, that men may understand\r\nthat what is good may not only work life to those who\r\nuse it aright, but also death to those who use it wrong.</p>","headings":["WRITINGS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DONATIST CONTROVERSY.","BOOK THIRD."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45843-paragraph-113"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"ac99934fdd7349f799ef969cc6d29601fda3494387fd264627dfd20e5e98fb06","edition_title":"Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy","edition_translators":["John Richard King"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg45843-Footnote_131_131","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_131_131","source_ebook":45843,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_131_131\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_131_131\"><span class=\"label\">[131]</span></a> Above, Book <span class=\"smcap\">i.</span> c. xi. foll.</p></div>","source_sha256":"a7a04003f4d3c49eb73db6c5936713979fcecadd86884373a9914ac54373ac5b","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45843/pg45843-images.html#Footnote_131_131","text_sha256":"ffe811cd8d1ca5a31b2f3afc0a2523d7b4e33f5883aed2424b6122dc44d57e1b","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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