{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p><span class=\"smcap\">Chap. xv.</span>—20. Accordingly, if Marcion consecrated the\r\nsacrament of baptism with the words of the gospel, \"In the<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_68\">[Pg 68]</a></span>\r\nname of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost,\"<a id=\"FNanchor_139_139\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_139_139\">[139]</a>\r\nthe sacrament was complete, although his faith expressed under\r\nthe same words, seeing that he held opinions not taught by the\r\nCatholic truth, was not complete, but stained with the falsity\r\nof fables.<a id=\"FNanchor_140_140\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_140_140\">[140]</a> For under these same words, \"In the name of\r\nthe Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost,\" not\r\nMarcion only, or Valentinus, or Arius, or Eunomius, but the\r\ncarnal babes of the Church themselves (to whom the apostle\r\nsaid, \"I could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as\r\nunto carnal\"), if they could be individually asked for an\r\naccurate exposition of their opinions, would probably show a\r\ndiversity of opinions as numerous as the persons who held\r\nthem, \"for the natural man receiveth not the things of the\r\nSpirit of God.\" Can it, however, be said on this account that\r\nthey do not receive the complete sacrament? or that, if they\r\nshall advance, and correct the vanity of their carnal opinions,\r\nthey must seek again what they had received? Each man\r\nreceives after the fashion of his own faith; yet how much does\r\nhe obtain under the guidance of that mercy of God, in the\r\nconfident assurance of which the same apostle says, \"If in\r\nanything ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this\r\nto you?\"<a id=\"FNanchor_141_141\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_141_141\">[141]</a> Yet the snares of heretics and schismatics prove for\r\nthis reason only too pernicious to the carnally-minded, because\r\ntheir very progress is intercepted when their vain opinions are\r\nconfirmed in opposition to the Catholic truth, and the perversity\r\nof their dissension is strengthened against the Catholic\r\npeace. Yet if the sacraments are the same, they are everywhere\r\ncomplete, even when they are wrongly understood, and\r\nperverted to be instruments of discord, just as the very\r\nwritings of the gospel, if they are only the same, are everywhere\r\ncomplete, even though quoted with a boundless variety\r\nof false opinions. For as to what Jeremiah says—\"Why do\r\nthose who grieve me prevail against me? My wound is<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_69\">[Pg 69]</a></span>\r\nstubborn, whence shall I be healed? In its origin it became\r\nunto me as lying water, having no certainty,\"<a id=\"FNanchor_142_142\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_142_142\">[142]</a>—if the term\r\n\"water\" were never used figuratively and in the allegorical\r\nlanguage of prophecy except to signify baptism, we should\r\nhave trouble in discovering what these words of Jeremiah\r\nmeant; but as it is, when \"waters\" are expressly used in the\r\nApocalypse<a id=\"FNanchor_143_143\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_143_143\">[143]</a> to signify \"peoples,\" I do not see why, by \"lying\r\nwater having no certainty,\" I should not understand, \"a lying\r\npeople, whom I cannot trust.\"</p>","headings":["WRITINGS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DONATIST CONTROVERSY.","BOOK THIRD."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45843-paragraph-115"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"091cd36ac06b9ca3627e9ebeec291310850045f8cb2f484ef86913a5fb019a34","edition_title":"Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy","edition_translators":["John Richard King"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"REV","chapter":17,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Rev. xvii. 15","verse":15,"verse_end":15}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45843-Footnote_143_143","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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