{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>33. Wherefore I will do no more than run shortly through\r\nthe other sentiments founded on the same rules, which are in\r\nthe aforesaid letter written to Pompeius. By what authority\r\nof holy Scripture is it shown that it is against the commandment\r\nof God that persons coming from the society of\r\nheretics, if they have already there received the baptism of\r\nChrist, are not baptized again? But it is clearly shown that\r\nmany pretended Christians, though they are not joined in the\r\nsame bond of charity with the saints, without which anything\r\nholy that they may have been able to possess is of no profit\r\nto them, yet have baptism in common with the saints, as has\r\nbeen already sufficiently proved with the greatest fulness.\r\nHe says \"that the Church, and the Spirit, and baptism, are\r\nmutually incapable of separation from each other, and therefore\"\r\nhe wishes that \"those who are separated from the\r\nChurch and the Holy Spirit should be understood to be\r\nseparated also from baptism.\" But if this is the case, then\r\nwhen any one has received baptism in the Catholic Church,\r\nit remains so long in him as he himself remains in the\r\nChurch, which is not so. For it is not restored to him\r\nwhen he returns, just because he did not lose it when he<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_143\">[Pg 143]</a></span>\r\nseceded. But as the disaffected sons have not the Holy\r\nSpirit in the same manner as the beloved sons, and yet\r\nthey have baptism; so heretics also have not the Church\r\nas Catholics have, and yet they have baptism. \"For the\r\nHoly Spirit of discipline will flee deceit,\"<a id=\"FNanchor_366_366\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_366_366\">[366]</a> and yet baptism\r\nwill not flee from it. And so, as baptism can continue in\r\none from whom the Holy Spirit withdraws Himself, so can\r\nbaptism continue where the Church is not. But if \"the laying\r\non of hands\" were not applied to one coming from heresy,\r\nhe would be as it were judged to be wholly blameless; but\r\nfor the uniting of love, which is the greatest gift of the Holy\r\nSpirit, without which any other holy thing that there may\r\nbe in a man is profitless to his salvation, hands are laid\r\non heretics when they are brought to a knowledge of the\r\ntruth.<a id=\"FNanchor_367_367\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_367_367\">[367]</a></p>","headings":["WRITINGS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DONATIST CONTROVERSY.","BOOK FIFTH."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45843-paragraph-194"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"eda1471aaadb7fa29fa6bd81eb4bbe78e4cd7e3002b5e4e8dc02c90fc05de7d5","edition_title":"Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy","edition_translators":["John Richard King"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg45843-Footnote_367_367","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_367_367","source_ebook":45843,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_367_367\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_367_367\"><span class=\"label\">[367]</span></a> Cyprian, in the laying on of hands, appears to refer to confirmation, but\r\nAugustine interprets it of the restoration of penitents. Cp. <span class=\"smcap\">III</span>. xvi. 21.</p></div>","source_sha256":"a7a04003f4d3c49eb73db6c5936713979fcecadd86884373a9914ac54373ac5b","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45843/pg45843-images.html#Footnote_367_367","text_sha256":"b38868affb8b4f6ba7d104fd226800952af6859726b535764587e2900c3de574","verified":false,"work_id":null}