Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>7. And yet this point had once, perhaps, been involved in\r\nobscurity and doubt. But that which is a source of health to\r\nthose who give heed and receive correction, is but an aggravation\r\nof the sin of those who, when they are no longer\r\nsuffered to be ignorant, persist in their madness to their own\r\ndestruction. For the condemnation of the party of Maximianus,\r\nand their restoration after they had been condemned,\r\ntogether with those whom they had sacrilegiously, to use the\r\nlanguage of their own Council,<a id=\"FNanchor_13_13\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_13_13\">[13]</a> baptized in schism, settles the\r\nwhole question in dispute, and removes all controversy. There\r\nis no point at issue between ourselves and those Donatists\r\nwho hold communion with Primianus, which could give rise\r\nto any doubt that the baptism of Christ may not only be retained,\r\nbut even conferred by those who are severed from the\r\nChurch. For as they themselves are obliged to confess that\r\nthose whom Felicianus baptized in schism received true baptism,\r\ninasmuch as they now acknowledge them as members of\r\ntheir own body with no other baptism than that which they\r\nreceived in schism, so we say that that is Christ's baptism,\r\neven without the pale of Catholic communion, which they\r\nconfer who are cut off from that communion, inasmuch as\r\nthey had not lost it when they were cut off. And what they\r\nthemselves think that they conferred on those persons whom\r\nFelicianus baptized in schism, when they admitted them to\r\nreconciliation with themselves, viz., not that they should re<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_10\">[Pg 10]</a></span>ceive\r\nthat which they did not as yet possess, but that what\r\nthey had received to no advantage in schism, and were already\r\nin possession of, should be of profit to them, this God really\r\nconfers and bestows through the Catholic communion on those\r\nwho come from any heresy or schism in which they received\r\nthe baptism of Christ; viz. not that they should begin to\r\nreceive the sacrament of baptism as not possessing it before,\r\nbut that what they already possessed should now begin to\r\nprofit them.</p>","headings":["WRITINGS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DONATIST CONTROVERSY.","BOOK FIRST."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45843-paragraph-51"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"be22ccff081822a6b15707cbffe8ad1837d38607ffc04cce02d014b0032698fb","edition_title":"Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy","edition_translators":["John Richard King"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg45843-Footnote_13_13","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_13_13","source_ebook":45843,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_13_13\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_13_13\"><span class=\"label\">[13]</span></a> The Council of Donatist bishops, held at Bagai in Numidia, <span class=\"smcap\">A.D.</span> 394. Cp.\r\n<i>Contr. Crescon.</i> iii. 52, 53.</p></div>","source_sha256":"a7a04003f4d3c49eb73db6c5936713979fcecadd86884373a9914ac54373ac5b","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45843/pg45843-images.html#Footnote_13_13","text_sha256":"576d0379431a4e975742780e6f407b93f804af505a7baad107dedd3ea484f07d","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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