{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p><span class=\"smcap\">Chap. viii.</span>—9. Wherefore, as the apostle said of the law,\r\n\"The law is good, if a man use it lawfully,\"<a id=\"FNanchor_309_309\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_309_309\">[309]</a> so we may\r\nfairly say of baptism, Baptism is good, if a man use it lawfully.\r\nAnd as they who used the law unlawfully could not\r\nin that case cause that it should not be in itself good, or\r\nmake it null and void, so any one who uses baptism unlawfully,\r\neither because he lives in heresy, or because he lives\r\nthe worst of lives, yet cannot cause that the baptism should\r\nbe otherwise than good, or altogether null and void. And so,\r\nwhen he is converted either to Catholic unity, or to a mode\r\nof living worthy of so great a sacrament, he begins to have\r\nnot another and a lawful baptism, but that same baptism in\r\na lawful manner. Nor does the remission of irrevocable sins\r\nfollow on baptism, unless a man not only have lawful\r\nbaptism, but have it lawfully; and yet it does not follow\r\nthat if a man have it not lawfully, so that his sins are either\r\nnot remitted, or, being remitted, are brought on him again,\r\ntherefore the sacrament of baptism should be in the baptized\r\nperson either bad or null and void. For as Judas, to whom\r\nthe Lord gave a morsel, gave a place within himself to the\r\ndevil, not by receiving what was bad, but by receiving it\r\nbadly,<a id=\"FNanchor_310_310\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_310_310\">[310]</a> so each person, on receiving the sacrament of the\r\nLord, does not cause that it is bad because he is bad himself,\r\nor that he has received nothing because he has not\r\nreceived it to salvation. For it was none the less the body\r\nof the Lord and the blood of the Lord, even in those to\r\nwhom the apostle said, \"He that eateth unworthily, eateth\r\nand drinketh damnation to himself.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_311_311\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_311_311\">[311]</a> Let the heretics\r\ntherefore seek in the Catholic Church not what they have,\r\nbut what they have not,—that is, the end of the commandment,\r\nwithout which many holy things may be possessed, but\r\nthey cannot profit. \"Now, the end of the commandment is<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_124\">[Pg 124]</a></span>\r\ncharity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of\r\nfaith unfeigned.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_312_312\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_312_312\">[312]</a> Let them therefore hasten to the unity\r\nand truth of the Catholic Church, not that they may have\r\nthe sacrament of washing, if they have been already bathed\r\nin it, although in heresy, but that they may have it to their\r\nhealth.</p>","headings":["WRITINGS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DONATIST CONTROVERSY.","BOOK FIFTH."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45843-paragraph-168"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"45546f6347695e3ddfc1fc33416af24a36ac3acb69cfb08803bc2607ac4a130f","edition_title":"Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy","edition_translators":["John Richard King"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"JHN","chapter":13,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"John xiii. 27","verse":27,"verse_end":27}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45843-Footnote_310_310","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_310_310","source_ebook":45843,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_310_310\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_310_310\"><span class=\"label\">[310]</span></a> John xiii. 27.</p></div>","source_sha256":"a7a04003f4d3c49eb73db6c5936713979fcecadd86884373a9914ac54373ac5b","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45843/pg45843-images.html#Footnote_310_310","text_sha256":"46e401571e7d3681a85074af05a0f7e12d94aab29089e05afbe96a76a683fea0","verified":false,"work_id":null}