{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"cap\">CHAP. I.—1. Let us not be considered troublesome to\r\nour readers, if we discuss the same question often and\r\nfrom different points of view. For although the holy Catholic\r\nChurch throughout all nations be fortified by the authority\r\nof primitive custom and of a general Council against those\r\narguments which throw some darkness over the question\r\nabout baptism, whether it can be the same among heretics\r\nand schismatics that it is in the Catholic Church, yet, since\r\na different opinion has at one time been entertained in the\r\nunity of the Church itself, by men who are in nowise to be\r\ndespised, and especially by Cyprian, whose authority men\r\nendeavour to use against us who are far removed from his\r\ncharity, we are therefore compelled to make use of the\r\nopportunity of examining and considering all that we find\r\non this subject in his Council and letters, in order, as it were,\r\nto handle at some considerable length this same question,\r\nand to show how it has more truly been the decision of the\r\nwhole body of the Catholic Church, that heretics or schismatics,\r\nwho have received baptism already in the body from\r\nwhich they came, should be admitted with it into the communion\r\nof the Catholic Church, being corrected in their error,\r\nand rooted and grounded in the faith, that, so far as concerns\r\nthe sacrament of baptism, there should not be an addition of\r\nsomething that was wanting, but a turning to profit of what\r\nwas in them. And the holy Cyprian indeed, now that the\r\ncorruptible body no longer presseth down the soul, nor the\r\nearthly tabernacle presseth down the mind that museth upon\r\nmany things,<a id=\"FNanchor_531_531\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_531_531\">[531]</a> sees with greater clearness that truth to which<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_196\">[Pg 196]</a></span>\r\nhis charity made him deserving to attain. May he therefore\r\nhelp us by his prayers, while we labour in the mortality\r\nof the flesh as in a darksome cloud, that if the Lord so grant\r\nit, we may imitate so far as we can the good that was in\r\nhim. But if he thought otherwise than right on any point,\r\nand persuaded certain of his brethren and colleagues to entertain\r\nhis views in a matter which he now sees clearly through\r\nthe revelation of Him whom he loved, let us, who are far\r\ninferior to his merits, yet following, as our weakness will\r\nallow, the authority of the Catholic Church of which he was\r\nhimself a conspicuous and most noble member, strive our\r\nutmost against heretics and schismatics, seeing that they,\r\nbeing cut off from the unity which he maintained, and barren\r\nof the love with which he was fruitful, and fallen away from\r\nthe humility in which he stood, are disavowed and condemned\r\nthe more by him, in proportion as he knows that they wish\r\nto search out his writings for purposes of treachery, and are\r\nunwilling to imitate what he did for the maintenance of\r\npeace,—like those who, calling themselves Nazarene Christians,\r\nand circumcising the foreskin of their flesh after the\r\nfashion of the Jews, being heretics by birth in that error\r\nfrom which Peter, when straying from the truth, was recalled\r\nby Paul,<a id=\"FNanchor_532_532\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_532_532\">[532]</a> persist in the same to the present day. As therefore\r\nthey have remained in their perversity cut off from the body\r\nof the Church, while Peter has been crowned in the primacy\r\nof the apostles through the glory of martyrdom, so these\r\nmen, while Cyprian, through the abundance of his love, has\r\nbeen received into the portion of the saints through the\r\nbrightness of his passion, are obliged to recognise themselves\r\nas exiles from unity, and, in defence of their calumnies, set up\r\na citizen of unity as an opponent against the very home of\r\nunity. Let us therefore go on to examine the other judgments\r\nof that Council after the same fashion.</p>","headings":["WRITINGS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DONATIST CONTROVERSY.","BOOK SEVENTH."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45843-paragraph-290"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"8d1a3f4725c7ba630e44a5f5d9b767160c09c9a8e7de2903682fadde373eed12","edition_title":"Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy","edition_translators":["John Richard King"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"GAL","chapter":2,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Gal. ii. 11","verse":11,"verse_end":11}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45843-Footnote_532_532","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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