{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"cap\">CHAP. I.—1. It might perhaps have been sufficient,\r\nthat after the reasons have been so often repeated,\r\nand considered, and discussed with such variety of treatment,\r\nsupplemented, too, with the addition of proofs from holy\r\nScripture, and the concurrent testimony of so many passages\r\nfrom Cyprian himself, even those who are slow of heart\r\nshould thus understand, as I believe they do, that the\r\nbaptism of Christ cannot be rendered void by any perversity\r\non the part of man, whether in administering or receiving it.\r\nAnd when we find that in those times, when the point in\r\nquestion was decided in a manner contrary to ancient custom,\r\nafter discussions carried on without violation of Christian\r\ncharity and unity, it appeared to certain eminent men even\r\namongst the servants of Christ, among whom the blessed\r\nCyprian was specially conspicuous, that the baptism of Christ\r\ncould not exist among heretics or schismatics, this simply\r\narose from their not distinguishing the sacrament from the\r\neffect or use of the sacrament; and because its effect and\r\nuse was not found among heretics in freeing them from their\r\nsins and setting their hearts right, the sacrament itself was\r\nalso thought to be wanting among them. But if we turn our\r\neyes to the multitude of chaff within the Church, since these\r\nalso who are perverse and lead an abandoned life in unity\r\nitself appear to have no power either of giving or retaining\r\nremission of sins, seeing that it is not to the wicked but the\r\ngood sons that it was said, \"Whose soever sins ye remit, they\r\nare remitted unto them; and whose soever sins ye retain,<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_151\">[Pg 151]</a></span>\r\nthey are retained,\"<a id=\"FNanchor_391_391\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_391_391\">[391]</a> yet that such persons both have, and\r\ngive, and receive the sacrament of baptism, was sufficiently\r\nmanifest to the pastors of the Catholic Church dispersed over\r\nthe whole world, through whom the original custom was\r\nafterwards confirmed by the authority of a general Council;\r\nso that even the sheep which was straying outside, and had\r\nreceived the mark of the Lord from false plunderers outside,\r\nif it seek the salvation of Christian unity, is purified from\r\nerror, is freed from captivity, is healed of its wound, and yet\r\nthe mark of the Lord is recognised rather than rejected in it;\r\nsince the mark itself is often impressed both by wolves and\r\non wolves, who seem indeed to be within the fold, but yet\r\nare proved by the fruits of their conduct, in which they persevere\r\neven to the end, not to belong to that sheep which is\r\none in many; because, according to the foreknowledge of\r\nGod, as many sheep wander outside, so many wolves lurk\r\ntreacherously within, among whom the Lord yet knoweth\r\nthem that are His, which hear only the voice of the Shepherd,\r\neven when He calls by the voice of men like the Pharisees,\r\nof whom it was said, \"Whatsoever they bid you observe, that\r\nobserve and do.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_392_392\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_392_392\">[392]</a></p>","headings":["WRITINGS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DONATIST CONTROVERSY.","BOOK SIXTH."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45843-paragraph-202"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"e939ed3317b4cd3770930eb3857c07e5e105d658b835346c667fd079b970214f","edition_title":"Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy","edition_translators":["John Richard King"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"JHN","chapter":20,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"John xx. 23","verse":23,"verse_end":23}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45843-Footnote_391_391","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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