{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p><span class=\"smcap\">Chap. vi.</span>—7. For when this is done occasionally in the\r\ncase of individuals, at great intervals of time and space, the\r\nenormity of the deed is not equally felt; but if all were suddenly\r\nto be brought together who had been baptized in course\r\nof time by the aforesaid followers of Maximianus, either under\r\npressure of the peril of death or at their Easter solemnities,\r\nand it were told them that they must be baptized again,\r\nbecause what they had already received in the sacrilege of\r\nschism was null and void, they might indeed say what\r\nobstinate perseverance in their error would compel them to\r\nsay, that they might hide the rigour and iciness of their\r\nhardness under any kind of false shade of consistency against\r\nthe warmth of truth. But in fact, because the party of Maximianus\r\ncould not bear this, and because the very men who\r\nwould have to enforce it could not endure what must needs\r\nhave been done in the case of so many men at once, especially\r\nas those very men would be rebaptizing them in the party of\r\nPrimianus who had already baptized them in the party of<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_122\">[Pg 122]</a></span>\r\nMaximianus, for these reasons their baptism was received, and\r\nthe pride of the Donatists was cut short. And this course\r\nthey would certainly not have chosen to adopt, had they not\r\nthought that more harm would have been done to their cause\r\nby the offence men would have taken at the repetition of the\r\nbaptism, than by the reputation lost in abandoning their defence.\r\nAnd this I would not say with any idea that we\r\nought to be restrained by consideration of human feelings, if\r\nthe truth compelled those who came from heretics to be baptized\r\nafresh. But because the holy Cyprian says, \"that heretics\r\nmight have been all the more impelled to the necessity of\r\ncoming over, if only they were to be rebaptized in the Catholic\r\nChurch,\"<a id=\"FNanchor_308_308\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_308_308\">[308]</a> on this account I have wished to place on record\r\nthe intensity of the repugnance to this act which is seated\r\ndeeply in the heart of nearly every one,—a repugnance which\r\nI can believe was inspired by God Himself, that the Church\r\nmight be fortified by the instinct of repugnance against any\r\npossible arguments which the weak cannot dispel.</p>","headings":["WRITINGS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DONATIST CONTROVERSY.","BOOK FIFTH."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45843-paragraph-166"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"04898358da3130b9851636d9d0e9fc3bd932416d516d76b7f167cec39cf00ecc","edition_title":"Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy","edition_translators":["John Richard King"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg45843-Footnote_308_308","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_308_308","source_ebook":45843,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_308_308\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_308_308\"><span class=\"label\">[308]</span></a> Cypr. <i>Ep.</i> lxxiii. sec. 21.</p></div>","source_sha256":"a7a04003f4d3c49eb73db6c5936713979fcecadd86884373a9914ac54373ac5b","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45843/pg45843-images.html#Footnote_308_308","text_sha256":"2f4204f512ac15f15085dd203484632f318e521e683d53632c421ae602eabec8","verified":false,"work_id":null}