{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p><span class=\"smcap\">Chap. xxxix.</span>—45. But as for you, when the case of the\r\nfollowers of Maximianus is brought up against you, who, after\r\nbeing condemned by the sentence of a Council of 310 bishops;<a id=\"FNanchor_1112_1112\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1112_1112\">[1112]</a>\r\nafter being utterly defeated in the same Council, quoted in the\r\nrecords of so many proconsuls, in the chronicles of so many\r\nmunicipal towns; after being driven forth from the basilicas\r\nof which they were in possession, by the order of the judges,\r\nenforced by the troops of the several cities, were yet again<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_449\">[Pg 449]</a></span>\r\nreceived with all honour by you, together with those whom\r\nthey had baptized outside the pale of your communion, without\r\nany question respecting their baptism,—when confronted,\r\nI say, with their case, you can find no reply to make. Indeed,\r\nyou are vanquished by an expressed opinion, not indeed true,\r\nbut proceeding from yourselves, by which you maintain that\r\nmen perish for the faults of others in the same communion of\r\nthe sacraments, and that each man's character is determined\r\nby that of the man by whom he is baptized,—that he is guilty\r\nif his baptizer is guilty, innocent if he is innocent. But if\r\nthese views are true, there can be no doubt that, to say nothing\r\nof innumerable others, you are destroyed by the sins of the\r\nfollowers of Maximianus, whose guilt your party, in so large\r\na Council, has exaggerated even to the proportions of the sin\r\nof those whom the earth swallowed up alive. But if the\r\nfaults of the followers of Maximianus have not destroyed\r\nyou, then are these opinions false which you entertain; and\r\nmuch less have certain indefinite unproved faults of the\r\nAfricans been able to destroy the entire world. And accordingly,\r\nas the apostle says, \"Every man shall bear his own\r\nburden;\"<a id=\"FNanchor_1113_1113\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1113_1113\">[1113]</a> and the baptism of Christ is no one's except\r\nChrist's; and it is to no purpose that Petilianus promises that\r\nhe will take as the subject of his second book the charges\r\nwhich we bring concerning the followers of Maximianus,\r\nentertaining too low an opinion of men's intellects, as though\r\nthey do not perceive that he has nothing to say.</p>","headings":["WRITINGS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DONATIST CONTROVERSY.","BOOK THIRD."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45843-paragraph-724"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"7ced5695a8ccfcd47f0dc7da2002a9904e0b2389e1b1783e6c2bc3bbbf81790c","edition_title":"Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy","edition_translators":["John Richard King"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"GAL","chapter":6,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Gal. vi. 5","verse":5,"verse_end":5}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45843-Footnote_1113_1113","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_1113_1113","source_ebook":45843,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_1113_1113\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_1113_1113\"><span class=\"label\">[1113]</span></a> Gal. vi. 5.</p></div>","source_sha256":"a7a04003f4d3c49eb73db6c5936713979fcecadd86884373a9914ac54373ac5b","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45843/pg45843-images.html#Footnote_1113_1113","text_sha256":"97dc3927d1b59e7749709a3ade32de4012f102ed5033d6e66ed049c0f0396075","verified":false,"work_id":null}