{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p><span class=\"smcap\">Chap. v.</span>—6. We ask, therefore, since he says, \"He who\r\nreceives faith from the faithless receives not faith, but guilt,\"\r\nand immediately adds to this the further statement, that\r\n\"everything consists of an origin and root; and if it have not\r\nsomething for a head, it is nothing;\"—we ask, I say, in a case\r\nwhere the faithlessness of the baptizer is undetected: If, then,\r\nthe man whom he baptizes receives faith, and not guilt; if,\r\nthen, the baptizer is not his origin and root and head, who is it\r\nfrom whom he receives faith? where is the origin from which\r\nhe springs? where is the root of which he is a shoot? where\r\nthe head which is his starting-point? Can it be, that when\r\nhe who is baptized is unaware of the faithlessness of his\r\nbaptizer, it is then Christ who is the origin and root and head?\r\nAlas for human rashness and conceit! Why do you not allow\r\nthat it is always Christ who gives faith, for the purpose of\r\nmaking a man a Christian by giving it? Why do you not\r\nallow that Christ is always the origin of the Christian, that\r\nthe Christian always plants his root in Christ, that Christ is\r\nthe head of the Christian? Do we then maintain that, even\r\nwhen spiritual grace is dispensed to those that believe by the\r\nhands of a holy and faithful minister, it is still not the\r\nminister himself who justifies, but that One of whom it is\r\nsaid, that \"He justifieth the ungodly?\"<a id=\"FNanchor_645_645\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_645_645\">[645]</a> But unless we admit\r\nthis, either the Apostle Paul was the head and origin of\r\nthose whom he had planted, or Apollos the root of those whom<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_236\">[Pg 236]</a></span>\r\nhe had watered, rather than He who had given them faith in\r\nbelieving; whereas the same Paul says, \"I have planted,\r\nApollos watered, but God gave the increase: so then neither\r\nis he that planteth anything, nor he that watereth, but God\r\nthat giveth the increase.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_646_646\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_646_646\">[646]</a> Nor was the apostle himself their\r\nroot, but rather He who says, \"I am the vine, ye are the\r\nbranches.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_647_647\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_647_647\">[647]</a> How, too, could he be their head, when he says,\r\nthat \"we, being many, are one body in Christ,\"<a id=\"FNanchor_648_648\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_648_648\">[648]</a> and expressly\r\ndeclares in many passages that Christ Himself is the head of\r\nthe whole body?</p>","headings":["WRITINGS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DONATIST CONTROVERSY.","BOOK FIRST."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45843-paragraph-402"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"bb95d24ffa7a5298f934a437f6316248d6e154644b69c46a7da2c28fd1eea9c9","edition_title":"Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy","edition_translators":["John Richard King"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"JHN","chapter":15,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"John xv. 5","verse":5,"verse_end":5}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45843-Footnote_647_647","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_647_647","source_ebook":45843,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_647_647\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_647_647\"><span class=\"label\">[647]</span></a> John xv. 5.</p></div>","source_sha256":"a7a04003f4d3c49eb73db6c5936713979fcecadd86884373a9914ac54373ac5b","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45843/pg45843-images.html#Footnote_647_647","text_sha256":"789e86f18f992daac8e7341fafff9e430722b68ae03326552675ef8c1dacdaab","verified":false,"work_id":null}