{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p><span class=\"smcap\">Chap. XVIII.</span>—27. On the question of baptism, then, I think\r\nthat I have argued at sufficient length; and since this is a\r\nmost manifest schism which is called by the name of the\r\nDonatists, it only remains that on the subject of baptism we\r\nshould believe with pious faith what the universal Church\r\nmaintains, apart from the sacrilege of schism. And yet, if\r\nwithin the Church different men still held different opinions\r\non the point, without meanwhile violating peace, then till\r\nsome one clear and simple decree should have been passed\r\nby an universal Council, it would have been right for the\r\ncharity which seeks for unity to throw a veil over the error\r\nof human infirmity, as it is written, \"For charity shall cover\r\nthe multitude of sins.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_51_51\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_51_51\">[51]</a> For, seeing that its absence causes\r\nthe presence of all other things to be of no avail, we may\r\nwell suppose that in its presence there is found pardon for\r\nthe absence of some missing things.</p>","headings":["WRITINGS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DONATIST CONTROVERSY.","BOOK FIRST."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45843-paragraph-71"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"b5c66c1678fdac460abf5d1620245cf9fba7624853938486bbb31b86950dc15e","edition_title":"Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy","edition_translators":["John Richard King"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"1PE","chapter":4,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"1 Pet. iv. 8","verse":8,"verse_end":8}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45843-Footnote_51_51","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_51_51","source_ebook":45843,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_51_51\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_51_51\"><span class=\"label\">[51]</span></a> 1 Pet. iv. 8.</p></div>","source_sha256":"a7a04003f4d3c49eb73db6c5936713979fcecadd86884373a9914ac54373ac5b","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45843/pg45843-images.html#Footnote_51_51","text_sha256":"4bdace80b3e0f7b299b1caa282899db6cb0c694136c09713671f9cca9c18732d","verified":false,"work_id":null}