{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>39. The answer to this is: If your reason for wishing him\r\nto be baptized is that he has not received remission of sins,\r\nsupposing you find a man within the Church who has been\r\nbaptized, though entertaining hatred towards his brother, since\r\nthe Lord cannot lie, who says, \"If ye forgive not men their\r\ntrespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses,\"<a id=\"FNanchor_461_461\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_461_461\">[461]</a>\r\nwill you bid such an one, when corrected, to be baptized\r\nafresh? Assuredly not; so neither should you bid the heretic.\r\nIt is clear that we must not pass unnoticed why he did not\r\nbriefly say, \"We do not communicate with a heretic,\" but\r\nadded, \"so far as lies within our power.\" For he saw that a\r\ngreater number agreed with this view, from whose communion,\r\nhowever, he and his friends could not separate themselves, lest\r\nunity should be impaired, and so he added, \"so far as lies\r\nwithin our power,\"—showing beyond all doubt that he did\r\nnot willingly communicate with those whom he held to be\r\nwithout baptism, but that yet all things were to be endured\r\nfor the sake of peace and unity; just as was done also by\r\nthose who thought that Dativus and his party were in the\r\nwrong, and who held what afterwards was taught by a fuller\r\ndeclaration of the truth, and urged by ancient custom, which\r\nreceived the stronger confirmation of a later Council; yet in\r\nturn, with anxious piety, they showed toleration towards each\r\nother, though without violation of Christian charity they en<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_174\">[Pg 174]</a></span>tertained\r\ndifferent opinions, endeavouring to keep the unity of\r\nthe Spirit in the bond of peace,<a id=\"FNanchor_462_462\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_462_462\">[462]</a> till God should reveal to one\r\nof them, were he otherwise minded, even this error of his\r\nways.<a id=\"FNanchor_463_463\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_463_463\">[463]</a> And to this I would have those give heed, by whom\r\nunity is attacked on the authority of this very Council by\r\nwhich it is declared how much unity should be loved.</p>","headings":["WRITINGS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DONATIST CONTROVERSY.","BOOK SIXTH."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45843-paragraph-240"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"e540981163f246a834465b266d3e1d18c771913e81d2292a0cb5dd5f4f6aa087","edition_title":"Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy","edition_translators":["John Richard King"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"EPH","chapter":4,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Eph. iv. 3","verse":3,"verse_end":3}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45843-Footnote_462_462","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_462_462","source_ebook":45843,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_462_462\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_462_462\"><span class=\"label\">[462]</span></a> Eph. iv. 3.</p></div>","source_sha256":"a7a04003f4d3c49eb73db6c5936713979fcecadd86884373a9914ac54373ac5b","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45843/pg45843-images.html#Footnote_462_462","text_sha256":"c4bc6a881eb01e745510a86e00707e786afd27639c8ff6ce5d9870e05ccc5dac","verified":false,"work_id":null}