{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>66. What it is to be baptized by the dead, we have already,\r\nwithout prejudice to the more careful consideration of the\r\nsame scripture, sufficiently declared before.<a id=\"FNanchor_498_498\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_498_498\">[498]</a> But I would\r\nask why it is that they wish heretics alone to be considered\r\ndead, when Paul the apostle has said generally of sin, \"The\r\nwages of sin is death;\"<a id=\"FNanchor_499_499\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_499_499\">[499]</a> and again, \"To be carnally minded is<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_186\">[Pg 186]</a></span>\r\ndeath.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_500_500\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_500_500\">[500]</a> And when he says that a widow that liveth in\r\npleasure is dead,<a id=\"FNanchor_501_501\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_501_501\">[501]</a> how are they not dead who renounce the\r\nworld in words and not in deeds? What, therefore, is the\r\nprofit of washing in him who is baptized by them, except,\r\nindeed, that if he himself also is of the same character, he\r\nhas the laver indeed, but it does not profit him to salvation?\r\nBut if he by whom he is baptized is such, but the man who\r\nis baptized is turned to the Lord with no false heart, he is\r\nnot baptized by that dead person, but by that living One of\r\nwhom it is said, \"The same is He which baptizeth.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_502_502\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_502_502\">[502]</a> But\r\nto what he says of heretics, that if they who are baptized\r\namong them receive eternal life through the remission of\r\ntheir sins, why do they come to the Church? we answer:\r\nThey come for this reason, that although they have received\r\nthe baptism of Christ up to the point of the celebration of\r\nthe sacrament, yet they cannot attain to life eternal save\r\nthrough the charity of unity; just as neither would those\r\nenvious and malicious ones attain to life eternal, who would\r\nnot have their sins forgiven them, even if they entertained\r\nhatred only against those from whom they suffered wrong;\r\nsince the Truth said, \"If ye forgive not men their trespasses,\r\nneither will your Father forgive your trespasses,\"<a id=\"FNanchor_503_503\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_503_503\">[503]</a> how much\r\nless when they were hating those towards whom they were\r\nrewarding evil for good?<a id=\"FNanchor_504_504\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_504_504\">[504]</a> And yet these men, though\r\nrenouncing the world in words and not in deeds, would not\r\nbe baptized again, if they should afterwards be corrected, but\r\nthey would be made holy by the one living baptism. 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