{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p><span class=\"smcap\">Chap. vi.</span>—7. Furthermore, whether concerning Christ, or\r\nconcerning His Church, or any other matter whatsoever which\r\nis connected with your faith and life, to say nothing of ourselves,\r\nwho are by no means to be compared with him who\r\nsaid, \"Though we,\" at any rate, as he went on to say,\r\n\"Though an angel from heaven preach any other gospel unto\r\nyou than that which\" ye have received in the lawful and\r\nevangelical Scriptures, \"let him be accursed.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_1058_1058\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1058_1058\">[1058]</a> While carrying\r\nout this principle of action in our dealings with you, and\r\nwith all whom we desire to gain in Christ, and, amongst other\r\nthings, while preaching the holy Church which we read of as\r\npromised in the epistles of God, and see to be fulfilled according\r\nto the promises in all nations of the world, we have\r\nearned, not the rendering of thanks, but the flames of hatred,\r\nfrom those whom we desire to have attracted into His most\r\npeaceful bosom; as though we had bound them fast in that\r\nparty for which they cannot find any defence that they should\r\nmake; or as though we so long before had given injunctions\r\nto prophets and apostles that they should insert in their books\r\nno proofs by which it might be shown that the party of\r\nDonatus was the Church of Christ. And we indeed, dear<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_414\">[Pg 414]</a></span>\r\nbrethren, when we hear false charges brought against us by\r\nthose whom we have offended by preaching the eloquence of\r\ntruth, and confuting the vanity of error, have, as you know,\r\nthe most abundant consolation. For if, in the matters which\r\nthey lay to my charge, the testimony of my conscience does\r\nnot stand against me in the sight of God, where no mortal\r\neye can reach, not only ought I not to be cast down, but I\r\nshould even rejoice and be exceeding glad, for great is my\r\nreward in heaven.<a id=\"FNanchor_1059_1059\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1059_1059\">[1059]</a> For in fact I ought to consider, not how\r\nbitter, but how false is what I hear, and how true He is in\r\ndefence of whose name I am exposed to it, and to whom it\r\nis said, \"Thy name is as ointment poured forth.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_1060_1060\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1060_1060\">[1060]</a> And\r\ndeservedly does it smell sweet in all nations, though those\r\nwho speak evil of us endeavour to confine its fragrance within\r\none corner of Africa. Why therefore should we take amiss\r\nthat we are reviled by men who thus detract from the glory\r\nof Christ, whose party and schism find offence in what was\r\nforetold so long before of His ascent into the heavens, and of\r\nthe pouring forth of His name, as of the savour of ointment:\r\n\"Be Thou exalted, O God, above the heavens: let Thy glory\r\nbe above all the earth?\"<a id=\"FNanchor_1061_1061\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1061_1061\">[1061]</a></p>","headings":["WRITINGS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DONATIST CONTROVERSY.","BOOK THIRD."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45843-paragraph-684"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"919c378cf208e8d46ff92ef4929168ffd9dcb4e0007a9c1c1d253fcc191287b0","edition_title":"Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy","edition_translators":["John Richard King"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"PSA","chapter":57,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Ps. lvii. 11","verse":11,"verse_end":11}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45843-Footnote_1061_1061","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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