{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p><span class=\"smcap\">Chap. xvi.</span>—21. But when it is said that \"the Holy Spirit is\r\ngiven only in the Catholic Church,\" I suppose that our ancestors\r\nmeant that we should understand thereby what the apostle\r\nsays, \"Because the love of God is spread abroad in our hearts\r\nby the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_144_144\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_144_144\">[144]</a> For this is that\r\nvery love which is wanting in all who are cut off from the\r\ncommunion of the Catholic Church; and for lack of this,\r\n\"though they speak with the tongues of men and of angels,\r\nthough they understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and\r\nthough they have the gift of prophecy, and all faith, so that\r\nthey could remove mountains, and though they bestow all\r\ntheir goods to feed the poor, and though they give their bodies\r\nto be burned, it profiteth them nothing.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_145_145\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_145_145\">[145]</a> But those are\r\nwanting in God's love who do not care for the unity of the\r\nChurch; and consequently we are right in understanding that\r\nthe Holy Spirit may be said not to be received except in the\r\nCatholic Church. For the Holy Spirit is not only given by the\r\nlaying on of hands amid the testimony of temporal sensible\r\nmiracles, as He was given in former days to be the credentials\r\nof a rudimentary faith, and for the extension of the first beginnings\r\nof the Church. For who expects in these days that\r\nthose on whom hands are laid that they may receive the Holy\r\nSpirit should forthwith begin to speak with tongues? but it is\r\nunderstood that invisibly and imperceptibly, on account of the\r\nbond of peace, divine love is breathed into their hearts, so that\r\nthey may be able to say, \"Because the love of God is spread\r\nabroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_70\">[Pg 70]</a></span>\r\nus.\" But there are many operations of the Holy Spirit, which\r\nthe same apostle commemorates in a certain passage at such\r\nlength as he thinks sufficient, and then concludes: \"But all\r\nthese worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to\r\nevery man severally as He will.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_146_146\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_146_146\">[146]</a> Since, then, the sacrament\r\nis one thing, which even Simon Magus could have;<a id=\"FNanchor_147_147\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_147_147\">[147]</a> and the\r\noperation of the Spirit is another thing, which is even often\r\nfound in wicked men, as Saul had the gift of prophecy;<a id=\"FNanchor_148_148\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_148_148\">[148]</a> and\r\nthat operation of the same Spirit is a third thing, which only\r\nthe good can have, as \"the end of the commandment is charity\r\nout of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith\r\nunfeigned:\"<a id=\"FNanchor_149_149\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_149_149\">[149]</a> whatever, therefore, may be received by heretics\r\nand schismatics, the charity which covereth the multitude of\r\nsins is the especial gift of Catholic unity and peace; nor is it\r\nfound in all that are within that bond, since not all that are\r\nwithin it are of it, as we shall see in the proper place. At\r\nany rate, outside the bond that love cannot exist, without which\r\nall the other requisites, even if they can be recognised and\r\napproved, cannot profit or release from sin. But the laying on\r\nof hands in reconciliation to the Church is not, like baptism,\r\nincapable of repetition; for what is it more than a prayer\r\noffered over a man?<a id=\"FNanchor_150_150\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_150_150\">[150]</a></p>","headings":["WRITINGS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DONATIST CONTROVERSY.","BOOK THIRD."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45843-paragraph-116"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"84ea97d34b43922c3180e947f374cfae6590e1144bf9df9b1ba0ca2f673aa19b","edition_title":"Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy","edition_translators":["John Richard King"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg45843-Footnote_148_148","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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