{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p><span class=\"smcap\">Chap. lvi.</span>—68. And if this is rightly said of the gospel,\r\nwith how much greater certainty should it be said of baptism,\r\nwhich belongs to the gospel in such wise, that without it no\r\none can reach the kingdom of heaven, and with it only if\r\nto the sacrament be added righteousness? For He who said,\r\n\"Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot\r\nenter into the kingdom of God,\"<a id=\"FNanchor_1165_1165\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1165_1165\">[1165]</a> said Himself also, \"Except\r\nyour righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the\r\nscribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the\r\nkingdom of heaven.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_1166_1166\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1166_1166\">[1166]</a> The form of the sacrament is given\r\nthrough baptism, the form of righteousness through the gospel.\r\nNeither one without the other leads to the kingdom of heaven.\r\nYet even men of inferior learning can baptize perfectly, but\r\nto preach the gospel perfectly is a task of much greater difficulty\r\nand rarity. Therefore the teacher of the Gentiles, that\r\nwas superior in excellence to the majority, was sent to preach\r\nthe gospel, not to baptize; because the latter could be done\r\nby many, the former only by a few, of whom he was chief.\r\nAnd yet we read that he said in certain places, \"My gospel;\"<a id=\"FNanchor_1167_1167\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1167_1167\">[1167]</a>\r\nbut he never called baptism either his, or any one's else by\r\nwhom it was administered. For that baptism alone which\r\nJohn gave is called John's baptism.<a id=\"FNanchor_1168_1168\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1168_1168\">[1168]</a> This that man received\r\nas the special pledge of his ministry, that the preparatory\r\nsacrament of washing should even be called by the name of\r\nhim by whom it was administered; whereas the baptism<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_474\">[Pg 474]</a></span>\r\nwhich the disciples of Christ administered was never called\r\nby the name of any one of them, that it should be understood\r\nto be His alone of whom it is said, \"Christ loved the\r\nChurch, and gave Himself for it, that He might sanctify and\r\ncleanse it with the washing of water by the word.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_1169_1169\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1169_1169\">[1169]</a> If, therefore,\r\nthe gospel, which is Christ's, but so that a minister also\r\nmay call it his in virtue of his office of administering it, can\r\nbe received by a man even at the hands of an evil minister\r\nwithout danger to himself, if he does according to what he\r\nsays, and not after the example of what he does, how much\r\nmore may any one who comes in good faith to Christ receive\r\nwithout fear of contagion from an evil minister the baptism of\r\nChrist, which none of the apostles so administered as to dare\r\nto call it his own?</p>","headings":["WRITINGS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DONATIST CONTROVERSY.","BOOK THIRD."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45843-paragraph-747"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"b75706610c2af2b1a4522d66e9e833e1ad44bbf681b6077125e20333407b89af","edition_title":"Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy","edition_translators":["John Richard King"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"ACT","chapter":19,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Acts xix. 3","verse":3,"verse_end":3}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45843-Footnote_1168_1168","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_1168_1168","source_ebook":45843,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_1168_1168\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_1168_1168\"><span class=\"label\">[1168]</span></a> Acts xix. 3.</p></div>","source_sha256":"a7a04003f4d3c49eb73db6c5936713979fcecadd86884373a9914ac54373ac5b","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45843/pg45843-images.html#Footnote_1168_1168","text_sha256":"58d84a5b62ac4dd78b167acec6c88914923ed294a4ce2c945db8185b9e40be34","verified":false,"work_id":null}