{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p><span class=\"smcap\">Chap. ii.</span>—3. Hear therefore, all ye who have read his\r\nrevilings, what Petilianus has vented against me with more\r\nanger than consideration. To begin with, I will address you\r\nin the words of the apostle, which certainly are true, whatever\r\nI myself may be: \"Let a man so account of us as of\r\nthe ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God.\r\nMoreover, it is required of stewards, that a man be found\r\nfaithful. But with me it is a very small matter that I should\r\nbe judged of you, or of man's judgment: yea, I judge not\r\nmine own self.\" With regard to what immediately follows,\r\nalthough I do not venture to apply to myself the words, \"For\r\nI am conscious of nothing in myself,\"<a id=\"FNanchor_1032_1032\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1032_1032\">[1032]</a> yet I say confidently\r\nin the sight of God, that I am conscious in myself of none of\r\nthose charges which Petilianus has brought against my life\r\nsince the time when I was baptized in Christ; \"yet am I\r\nnot hereby justified: but He that judgeth me is the Lord.\r\nTherefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come,\r\nwho both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness,<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_408\">[Pg 408]</a></span>\r\nand will make manifest the counsels of the hearts; and then\r\nshall every man have praise of God. And these things,\r\nbrethren, I have in a figure transferred to myself; that ye\r\nmight learn in us not to think of men above that which is\r\nwritten, that no one of you be puffed up for one against\r\nanother.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_1033_1033\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1033_1033\">[1033]</a> \"Therefore let no man glory in men: for all\r\nthings are yours; and ye are Christ's; and Christ is God's.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_1034_1034\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1034_1034\">[1034]</a>\r\nAgain I say, \"Let no man glory in men;\" nay, oftentimes I\r\nrepeat it, \"Let no man glory in men.\" If you perceive anything\r\nin us which is deserving of praise, refer it all to His\r\npraise, from whom is every good gift and every perfect gift;\r\nfor it is \"from above, and cometh down from the Father of\r\nlights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_1035_1035\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1035_1035\">[1035]</a>\r\nFor what have we which we did not receive? and if\r\nwe have received it, let us not boast as though we had not\r\nreceived it.<a id=\"FNanchor_1036_1036\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1036_1036\">[1036]</a> And in all these things which you know to be\r\ngood in us, be ye our followers, at any rate, if we are Christ's;<a id=\"FNanchor_1037_1037\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1037_1037\">[1037]</a>\r\nbut if, on the other hand, you either suspect, or believe, or\r\nsee that any evil is in us, hold fast to that saying of the\r\nLord's, in which you may safely resolve not to desert His\r\nChurch because of men's ill deeds: Whatsoever we bid you\r\nobserve, that observe and do; but whatsoever evil works\r\nyou think or know to be in us, those do ye not.<a id=\"FNanchor_1038_1038\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1038_1038\">[1038]</a> For this is\r\nnot the time for me to justify myself before you, when I have\r\nundertaken, neglecting all considerations of self, to recommend\r\nto you what is for your salvation, that no one should make\r\nhis boast of men. For \"cursed be the man that trusteth in\r\nman.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_1039_1039\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1039_1039\">[1039]</a> So long as this precept of the Lord and His apostle\r\nbe adhered to and observed, the cause which I serve will be\r\nvictorious, even if I myself, as my enemy would fain have\r\nthought, am faint and oppressed in my own cause. For if\r\nyou cling most firmly to what I urge on you with all my\r\nmight, that every one is cursed who places his trust in man,\r\nso that none should make his boast of man, then you will\r\nin no wise desert the threshing-floor of the Lord on account\r\nof the chaff which either is now being dispersed beneath the\r\nblast of the wind of pride, or will be separated by the final<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_409\">[Pg 409]</a></span>\r\nwinnowing;<a id=\"FNanchor_1040_1040\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1040_1040\">[1040]</a> nor will you fly from the great house on account\r\nof the vessels made to dishonour;<a id=\"FNanchor_1041_1041\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1041_1041\">[1041]</a> nor will you quit the net\r\nthrough the breaches made in it because of the bad fish which\r\nare to be separated on the shore;<a id=\"FNanchor_1042_1042\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1042_1042\">[1042]</a> nor will you leave the\r\ngood pastures of unity, because of the goats which are to be\r\nplaced on the left when the Good Shepherd shall divide the\r\nflock;<a id=\"FNanchor_1043_1043\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1043_1043\">[1043]</a> nor will you separate yourselves by an impious secession,\r\nbecause of the mixture of the tares, from the society of\r\nthat good wheat, whose source is that grain that dies and is\r\nmultiplied thereby, and that grows together throughout the\r\nworld until the harvest. For the field is the world,—not only\r\nAfrica; and the harvest is the end of the world,<a id=\"FNanchor_1044_1044\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1044_1044\">[1044]</a>—not the era\r\nof Donatus.</p>","headings":["WRITINGS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DONATIST CONTROVERSY.","BOOK THIRD."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45843-paragraph-680"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"1e0fb636cf210f5ada81c4052d3cc82e38df8816ff6e25491caf9a0f13183de3","edition_title":"Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy","edition_translators":["John Richard King"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"1CO","chapter":4,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"1 Cor. iv. 16","verse":16,"verse_end":16}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45843-Footnote_1037_1037","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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