{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p><span class=\"smcap\">Chap. LIV.</span>—103. But now I think that it is fully time for<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_228\">[Pg 228]</a></span>\r\nme to bring to their due termination these books also on the\r\nsubject of baptism, in which our Lord God has shown to us,\r\nthrough the words of the peaceful Bishop Cyprian and his\r\nbrethren who agreed with him, how great is the love which\r\nshould be felt for catholic unity; so that even where they were\r\notherwise minded until God should reveal even this to them,<a id=\"FNanchor_637_637\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_637_637\">[637]</a>\r\nthey should rather bear with those who thought differently\r\nfrom themselves, than sever themselves from them by a wicked\r\nschism; whereby the mouths of the Donatists are wholly\r\nclosed, even if we say nothing of the followers of Maximian.\r\nFor if the wicked pollute the good in unity, then even Cyprian\r\nhimself already found no Church to which he could be joined.\r\nBut if the wicked do not infect the good in unity, then the\r\nsacrilegious Donatist has no ground to set before himself for\r\nseparation. But if baptism is both possessed and transferred\r\nby the multitude of others who work the works of the flesh,\r\nof which it is said, that \"they which do such things shall not\r\ninherit the kingdom of God,\"<a id=\"FNanchor_638_638\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_638_638\">[638]</a> then it is possessed and transferred\r\nalso by heretics, who are numbered among those works;\r\nbecause they could have transferred it had they remained, and\r\ndid not lose it by their secession. But men of this kind\r\nconfer it on their fellows as fruitlessly and uselessly as the\r\nothers who resemble them, inasmuch as they shall not inherit\r\nthe kingdom of God. And as, when those others are brought\r\ninto the right path, it is not that baptism begins to be present,\r\nhaving been absent before, but that it begins to profit them,\r\nhaving been already in them; so is it the case with heretics\r\nas well. Whence Cyprian and those who thought with him\r\ncould not impose limits on the Catholic Church, which they\r\nwould not mutilate. But in that they were otherwise minded\r\nwe feel no fear, seeing that we too share in their veneration\r\nfor Peter; yet in that they did not depart from unity we\r\nrejoice, seeing that we, like them, are founded on the rock.</p>","headings":["WRITINGS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DONATIST CONTROVERSY.","BOOK SEVENTH."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45843-paragraph-392"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"3f37a8a904546b353f071d71d2a1c85c6d7ab6144655180ddd25f82fff42f3ec","edition_title":"Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy","edition_translators":["John Richard King"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"PHP","chapter":3,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Phil. iii. 15","verse":15,"verse_end":15}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45843-Footnote_637_637","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_637_637","source_ebook":45843,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_637_637\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_637_637\"><span class=\"label\">[637]</span></a> Phil. iii. 15.</p></div>","source_sha256":"a7a04003f4d3c49eb73db6c5936713979fcecadd86884373a9914ac54373ac5b","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45843/pg45843-images.html#Footnote_637_637","text_sha256":"47b53220fa1c4ae2eb76eaf489c1977eee62d21fb6863c80e0472d36368eed43","verified":false,"work_id":null}