{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p><span class=\"smcap\">Chap. iv.</span>—5. We do not, therefore, \"acknowledge the\r\nbaptism of heretics,\"<a id=\"FNanchor_192_192\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_192_192\">[192]</a> when we refuse to rebaptize after them;\r\nbut because we acknowledge the ordinance to be of Christ,\r\neven among evil men, whether openly separated from us, or\r\nsecretly severed whilst within our body, we receive it with due\r\nrespect, having corrected those who were wrong in the points\r\nwherein they went astray. For as I seem to be hard pressed\r\nwhen it is said to me, \"Does then a heretic confer remission\r\nof sins?\" so I in turn press hard when I say, Does then he\r\nwho violates the commands of Heaven, the avaricious man,\r\nthe robber, the usurer, the envious man, does he who renounces\r\nthe world in words and not in deeds, confer such\r\nremission? If you mean by the force of God's sacrament,\r\nthen both the one and the other; if by his own merit,\r\nneither of them. For that sacrament, even in the hands of\r\nwicked men, is known to be of Christ; but neither the one\r\nnor the other of these men is found in the body of the one<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_83\">[Pg 83]</a></span>\r\nuncorrupt, holy, chaste dove, which has neither spot nor\r\nwrinkle. And just as baptism is of no profit to the man who\r\nrenounces the world in words and not in deeds, so it is of\r\nno profit to him who is baptized in heresy or schism; but\r\neach of them, when he amends his ways, begins to receive\r\nprofit from that which before was not profitable, but was yet\r\nalready in him.</p>","headings":["WRITINGS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DONATIST CONTROVERSY.","BOOK FOURTH."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45843-paragraph-130"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"9ad580cf725101f26785bfea213392a0285bf0badd201fa9b0458b77edb56aff","edition_title":"Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy","edition_translators":["John Richard King"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg45843-Footnote_192_192","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_192_192","source_ebook":45843,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_192_192\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_192_192\"><span class=\"label\">[192]</span></a> <i>Ib.</i> lxxvii. sec. 10.</p></div>","source_sha256":"a7a04003f4d3c49eb73db6c5936713979fcecadd86884373a9914ac54373ac5b","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45843/pg45843-images.html#Footnote_192_192","text_sha256":"ef603d6f496d9e0bb9cd2e6d14f80c3cbb15af37ecc9dbb5038d9a69dc3ce98d","verified":false,"work_id":null}