{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p><span class=\"smcap\">Chap. iii.</span>—4. These comparisons of the gospel you doubtless\r\nrecognise. Nor can we suppose them given for any other purpose,\r\nexcept that no one should make his boast in man, and\r\nthat no one should be puffed up for one against another, or\r\ndivided one against another, saying, \"I am of Paul,\" when\r\ncertainly Paul was not crucified for you, nor were you baptized\r\nin the name of Paul, much less in that of Cæcilianus,\r\nor of any one of us,<a id=\"FNanchor_1045_1045\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1045_1045\">[1045]</a> that you may learn, that so long as\r\nthe chaff is being bruised with the corn, so long as the bad\r\nfishes swim together with the good in the nets of the Lord,\r\ntill the time of separation shall come, it is your duty rather\r\nto endure the admixture of the bad out of consideration for\r\nthe good, than to violate the principle of brotherly love\r\ntowards the good from any consideration of the bad. For\r\nthis admixture is not for eternity, but for time alone; nor is\r\nit spiritual, but corporal. And in this the angels will not be\r\nliable to err, when they shall collect the bad from the midst of\r\nthe good, and commit them to the burning fiery furnace. For\r\nthe Lord knoweth those which are His. And if a man cannot\r\ndepart bodily from those who practise iniquity so long as\r\ntime shall last, at any rate, let every one that nameth the\r\nname of Christ depart from iniquity itself.<a id=\"FNanchor_1046_1046\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1046_1046\">[1046]</a> For in the<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_410\">[Pg 410]</a></span>\r\nmeantime he may separate himself from the wicked in life,\r\nand in morals, and in heart and affections, and in the same\r\nrespects depart from his society; and separation such as this\r\nshould always be maintained. But let the separation in the\r\nbody be waited for till the end of time, faithfully, patiently,\r\nbravely. In consideration of which expectation it is said,\r\n\"Wait on the Lord; be of good courage, and He shall\r\nstrengthen thine heart: wait, I say, upon the Lord.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_1047_1047\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1047_1047\">[1047]</a> For\r\nthe greatest palm of toleration is won by those who, among\r\nfalse brethren that have crept in unawares, seeking their own,\r\nand not the things of Jesus Christ, yet show that they on\r\ntheir part seek not to disturb the love which is not their own,\r\nbut Jesus Christ's, by any turbulent or rash dissension, nor\r\nto break the unity of the Lord's net, in which are gathered\r\ntogether fish of every kind, till it is drawn to the shore, that\r\nis, till the end of time, by any wicked strife fostered in the\r\nspirit of pride: whilst each might think himself to be something,\r\nbeing really nothing, and so might lead himself astray,\r\nand wish that sufficient reason might be found for the separation\r\nof Christian peoples in the judgment of himself or of\r\nhis friends, who declare that they know beyond all question\r\ncertain wicked men unworthy of communion in the sacraments\r\nof the Christian religion: though whatever it may be\r\nthat they know of them, they cannot persuade the universal\r\nChurch, which, as it was foretold, is spread abroad throughout\r\nall nations, to give credit to their tale. And when they refuse\r\ncommunion with these men, as men whose character they\r\nknow, they desert the unity of the Church; whereas they\r\nought rather, if there really were in them that charity which\r\nendureth all things, themselves to bear what they know in\r\none nation, lest they should separate themselves from the\r\ngood whom they were unable throughout all nations to fill\r\nwith the teaching of evil alien to them. Whence even, without\r\ndiscussing the case, in which they are convicted by the\r\nweightiest proofs of having uttered calumnies against the\r\ninnocent, they are believed with greater probability to have\r\ninvented false charges of giving up the sacred books, when\r\nthey are found to have themselves committed the far more<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_411\">[Pg 411]</a></span>\r\nheinous crime of wicked division in the Church. For even,\r\nif whatever imputations they have cast of giving up the\r\nsacred books were true, yet they in no wise ought to have\r\nabandoned the society of Christians, who are commended by\r\nholy Scripture even to the ends of the world, on considerations\r\nwhich they have been familiar with, while these men\r\nshowed that they were not acquainted with them.</p>","headings":["WRITINGS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DONATIST CONTROVERSY.","BOOK THIRD."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45843-paragraph-681"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"34193fb0c42eb25498c2ad4c358235979fb5c8da9cb20511182ceee660ccd4e6","edition_title":"Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy","edition_translators":["John Richard King"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"PSA","chapter":27,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Ps. xxvii. 14","verse":14,"verse_end":14}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45843-Footnote_1047_1047","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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