Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p><span class=\"smcap\">Chap. iii</span>—4. Let us therefore, seeing that we adhere to\r\nthe example of Cyprian, go on now to consider Cyprian's\r\nCouncil. What says Cyprian? \"Ye have heard,\" he says,\r\n\"most beloved colleagues, what Jubaianus our fellow-bishop\r\nhas written to me, consulting my moderate ability concerning\r\nthe unlawful and profane baptism of heretics, and what\r\nanswer I gave him,—giving a judgment which we have once\r\nand again and often given, that heretics coming to the Church\r\nought to be baptized and sanctified with the baptism of the\r\nChurch. Another letter of Jubaianus has likewise been read\r\nto you, in which, agreeably to his sincere and religious devotion,\r\nin answer to our epistle, he not only expressed his\r\nassent, but returned thanks also, acknowledging that he had\r\nreceived instruction.\"<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_115_115\">[115]</a> In these words of the blessed Cyprian,\r\nwe find that he had been consulted by Jubaianus, and what\r\nanswer he had given to his questions, and how Jubaianus\r\nacknowledged with gratitude that he had received instruction.\r\nOught we then to be thought unreasonably persistent, if we\r\ndesire to consider this same epistle by which Jubaianus was\r\nconvinced? For till such time as we are also convinced (if\r\nthere are any arguments of truth whereby this can be done),\r\nCyprian himself has established our security by the right of\r\nCatholic communion.</p>","headings":["WRITINGS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DONATIST CONTROVERSY.","BOOK THIRD."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45843-paragraph-99"},{"context_html":"<p>5. For he goes on to say: \"It remains that we severally\r\ndeclare our opinion on this same subject, judging no one, nor\r\ndepriving any one of the right of communion if he differ from\r\nus.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_115_115\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_115_115\">[115]</a> He allows me, therefore, without losing the right of\r\ncommunion, not only to continue inquiring into the truth, but\r\neven to hold opinions differing from his own. \"For no one\r\nof us,\" he says, \"setteth himself up as a bishop of bishops, or\r\nby tyrannical terror forceth his colleagues to a necessity of\r\nobeying.\" What could be more kind? what more humble?\r\nSurely there is here no authority restraining us from inquiry<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_58\">[Pg 58]</a></span>\r\ninto what is truth. \"Inasmuch as every bishop,\" he says,\r\n\"in the free use of his liberty and power, has the right of\r\nforming his own judgment, and can no more be judged by\r\nanother than he can himself judge another,\"—that is, I\r\nsuppose, in those questions which have not yet been brought\r\nto perfect clearness of solution; for he knew what a deep\r\nquestion about the sacrament was then occupying the whole\r\nChurch with every kind of disputation, and gave free liberty\r\nof inquiry to every man, that the truth might be made known\r\nby investigation. For he was surely not uttering what was\r\nfalse, and trying to catch his simpler colleagues in their speech,\r\nso that, when they should have betrayed that they held\r\nopinions at variance with his, he might then propose, in violation\r\nof his promise, that they should be excommunicated.\r\nFar be it from a soul so holy to entertain such accursed\r\ntreachery; indeed, they who hold such a view about such a\r\nman, thinking that it conduces to his praise, do but show\r\nthat it would be in accordance with their own nature. I for\r\nmy part will in no wise believe that Cyprian, a Catholic\r\nbishop, a Catholic martyr, whose greatness only made him\r\nproportionately humble in all things, so as to find favour before\r\nthe Lord,<a id=\"FNanchor_116_116\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_116_116\">[116]</a> should ever, especially in the sacred Council of his\r\ncolleagues, have uttered with his mouth what was not echoed\r\nin his heart, especially as he further adds, \"But we must all\r\nawait the judgment of our Lord Jesus Christ, who alone has\r\nthe power both of setting us in the government of His Church,\r\nand of judging of our acts therein.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_117_117\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_117_117\">[117]</a> When, then, he called\r\nto their remembrance so solemn a judgment, hoping to hear\r\nthe truth from his colleagues, would he first set them the\r\nexample of lying? May God avert such madness from every\r\nChristian man, and how much more from Cyprian! We have\r\ntherefore the free liberty of inquiry granted to us by the\r\nmost moderate and most truthful speech of Cyprian.</p>","headings":["WRITINGS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DONATIST CONTROVERSY.","BOOK THIRD."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45843-paragraph-100"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"e805e586d21a25b99edb136dcc90b1f1daad0921d72a1be67911da7b324acf02","edition_title":"Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy","edition_translators":["John Richard King"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg45843-Footnote_115_115","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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