{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p><span class=\"smcap\">Chap. vii.</span>—10. I have already, I think, argued to the\r\nbest of my power, in the preceding books, in the interests of\r\nCatholic unanimity and counsel, in whose unity these continued\r\nas pious members, in reply not only to the letter which\r\nCyprian wrote to Jubaianus, but also to that which he sent to\r\nQuintus, and that which, in conjunction with certain of his\r\ncolleagues, he sent to certain other colleagues, and that which\r\nhe sent to Pompeius. Wherefore it seems now to be fitting\r\nto consider also what the others severally thought, and that\r\nwith the liberty of which he himself would not deprive us, as\r\nhe says, \"Judging no one, nor removing any from the right of\r\ncommunion if he entertain different opinions.\" And that he\r\ndid not say this with the object of arriving at the hidden\r\nthoughts of his colleagues, extracted as it were from their\r\nsecret lurking-places, but because he really loved peace and\r\nunity, is very easily to be seen from other passages of the\r\nsame sort, where he wrote to individuals as to Jubaianus himself.\r\n\"These things,\" he says, \"we have written very shortly\r\nin answer to you, most beloved brother, according to our poor\r\nability, not preventing any one of the bishops, by our writing\r\nor judgment, from acting as he thinks right, having a free\r\nexercise of his own judgment.\" And that it might not seem\r\nthat any one, because of his entertaining different opinions in\r\nthis same free exercise of his judgment, should be driven from\r\nthe society of his brethren, he goes on to say, \"We, so far as\r\nlies in us, do not strive on behalf of heretics against our colleagues\r\nand fellow-bishops, with whom we maintain godly\r\nunity and the peace of our Lord;\" and a little later he says,\r\n\"Charity of spirit, respect for our college, the bond of faith,\r\nthe harmony of the priesthood, are by us maintained with\r\npatience and gentleness.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_402_402\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_402_402\">[402]</a> And so also in the epistle which\r\nhe wrote to Magnus, when he was asked whether there was\r\nany difference in the efficacy of baptism by sprinkling or by\r\nimmersion, \"In this matter,\" he says, \"I am too modest and\r\ndiffident to prevent any one by my judgment from thinking<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_158\">[Pg 158]</a></span>\r\nas he deems right, and acting as he thinks.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_403_403\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_403_403\">[403]</a> By which\r\ndiscourses he clearly shows that these subjects were being\r\nhandled by them at a time when they were not yet received\r\nas decided beyond all question, but were being investigated\r\nwith great care as being yet unrevealed. We, therefore,\r\nmaintaining on the subject of the identity of all baptisms\r\nwhat must be acknowledged everywhere to be the custom<a id=\"FNanchor_404_404\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_404_404\">[404]</a> of\r\nthe universal Church, and what is confirmed by the decision\r\nof general Councils, and taking greater confidence also from\r\nthe words of Cyprian, which allowed me even then to hold\r\nopinions differing from his own without forfeiting the right of\r\ncommunion, seeing that greater importance and praise were\r\nattached to unity, such as the blessed Cyprian and his colleagues,\r\nwith whom he held that Council, maintained with\r\nthose of different opinions, disturbing and overthrowing thereby\r\nthe seditious calumnies of heretics and schismatics in the name\r\nof the Lord Jesus Christ, who, speaking by His apostle, says,\r\n\"Forbearing one another in love, endeavouring to keep the\r\nunity of the Spirit in the bond of peace;\"<a id=\"FNanchor_405_405\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_405_405\">[405]</a> and again, by the\r\nmouth of the same apostle, \"If in anything ye be otherwise\r\nminded, God shall reveal even this unto you,\"<a id=\"FNanchor_406_406\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_406_406\">[406]</a>—we, I say,\r\npropose for consideration and discussion the opinions of the\r\nholy bishops, without violating the bond of unity and peace\r\nwith them, in maintaining which we imitate them so far as we\r\ncan by the aid of the Lord Himself.</p>","headings":["WRITINGS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DONATIST CONTROVERSY.","BOOK SIXTH."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45843-paragraph-211"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"fe63fb763138e5e09ab3b1ba4829d0f2e07949d7a250514fcb90d945a2e34257","edition_title":"Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy","edition_translators":["John Richard King"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg45843-Footnote_402_402","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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