{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p><span class=\"smcap\">Chap. xv.</span>—20. Since the Catholic Church, both in the\r\ntime of the blessed Cyprian and in the older time before\r\nhim, contained within her bosom either some that were rebaptized\r\nor some that were unbaptized, either the one section or\r\nthe other must have won their salvation only by the force\r\nof simple unity. For if those who came over from the heretics\r\nwere not baptized, as Cyprian asserts, they were not rightly\r\nadmitted into the Church; and yet he himself did not despair\r\nof their obtaining pardon from the mercy of God in virtue of\r\nthe unity of the Church. So again, if they were already baptized,\r\nit was not right to rebaptize them. What, therefore, was\r\nthere to aid the other section, save the same charity that delighted\r\nin unity, so that what was hidden from man's weakness,\r\nin the consideration of the sacrament, might not be\r\nreckoned, by the mercy of God, as a fault in those who were<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_53\">[Pg 53]</a></span>\r\nlovers of peace? Why, then, while ye fear those whom ye\r\nhave rebaptized, do ye grudge yourselves and them the entrance\r\nto salvation? There was at one time a doubt upon the subject\r\nof baptism; those who held different opinions yet remained\r\nin unity. In course of time, owing to the certain\r\ndiscovery of the truth, that doubt was taken away. The question\r\nwhich, unsolved, did not frighten Cyprian into separation\r\nfrom the Church, invites you, now that it is solved, to return\r\nonce more within the fold. Come to the Catholic Church in\r\nits agreement, which Cyprian did not desert while yet disturbed\r\nwith doubt; or if now you are dissatisfied with the\r\nexample of Cyprian, who held communion with those who\r\nwere received with the baptism of heretics, declaring openly\r\nthat we should \"neither judge any one, nor deprive any one\r\nof the right of communion if he differ from us,\"<a id=\"FNanchor_113_113\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_113_113\">[113]</a> whither\r\nare ye going, ye wretched men? What are ye doing? You\r\nare bound to fly even from yourselves, because you have\r\nadvanced beyond the position where he abode. But if neither\r\nhis own sins nor those of others could stand in his way, on\r\naccount of the abundance of his charity and his love of\r\nbrotherly kindness and the bond of peace, do you return to us,\r\nwhere you will find much less hindrance in the way of either\r\nus or you from the fictions which your party have invented.</p>","headings":["WRITINGS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DONATIST CONTROVERSY.","BOOK SECOND."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45843-paragraph-94"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"cddc49bc9f0424826f3c1a795d4c02843d95af5f3b63e887eed91161a7a9b0fa","edition_title":"Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy","edition_translators":["John Richard King"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg45843-Footnote_113_113","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_113_113","source_ebook":45843,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_113_113\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_113_113\"><span class=\"label\">[113]</span></a> See above, c. ii. 3.</p></div>","source_sha256":"a7a04003f4d3c49eb73db6c5936713979fcecadd86884373a9914ac54373ac5b","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45843/pg45843-images.html#Footnote_113_113","text_sha256":"ea7572c1b61d80bd129c5a6639937edadb39355e557f44a5feb6e5bb74bf6107","verified":false,"work_id":null}