{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p><span class=\"smcap\">Chap. v.</span>—6. I prefer, he says, to receive Christ's baptism\r\nwhere both parties agree that it exists. But those whom you\r\nintend to join say that it cannot be received there rightly;\r\nand those who say that it can be received there rightly are\r\nthe party whom you mean to quit. What they say, therefore,\r\nwhom you yourself consider of inferior authority, in\r\nopposition to what those say whom you yourself prefer, is, if\r\nnot false, at any rate, to use a milder term, at least uncertain.\r\nI entreat you, therefore, to prefer what is true to what is false,\r\nor what is certain to what is uncertain. For it is not only\r\nthose whom you are going to join, but you yourself who are\r\ngoing to join them, that confess that what you want can be\r\nrightly received in that body which you mean to join when\r\nyou have received it elsewhere. For if you had any doubts\r\nwhether it could be rightly received there, you would also\r\nhave doubts whether you ought to make the change. If,\r\ntherefore, it is doubtful whether it be not sin to receive baptism\r\nfrom the party of Donatus, who can doubt but that it<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_9\">[Pg 9]</a></span>\r\nis certain sin not to prefer receiving it where it is certain that\r\nit is not sin? And those who are baptized there through\r\nignorance, thinking that it is the true Church of Christ, are\r\nguilty of less sin in comparison than these, though even\r\nthey are wounded by the impiety of schism; nor do they\r\nescape a grievous hurt, because others suffer even more. For\r\nwhen it is said to certain men, \"It shall be more tolerable for\r\nthe land of Sodom in the day of judgment than for you,\"<a id=\"FNanchor_12_12\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_12_12\">[12]</a>\r\nit is not meant that the men of Sodom shall escape torment,\r\nbut only that the others shall be even more grievously tormented.</p>","headings":["WRITINGS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DONATIST CONTROVERSY.","BOOK FIRST."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45843-paragraph-50"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"64565082d5bc07f470c2bce959e81569c1e951a8db7b21c9f451f061c68a0814","edition_title":"Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy","edition_translators":["John Richard King"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"MAT","chapter":11,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Matt. xi. 24","verse":24,"verse_end":24}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45843-Footnote_12_12","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_12_12","source_ebook":45843,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_12_12\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_12_12\"><span class=\"label\">[12]</span></a> Matt. xi. 24.</p></div>","source_sha256":"a7a04003f4d3c49eb73db6c5936713979fcecadd86884373a9914ac54373ac5b","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45843/pg45843-images.html#Footnote_12_12","text_sha256":"c64a56ac4e0a23fe72b210ac5314196d622123f31054907accf41ce2c031195f","verified":false,"work_id":null}