{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p><span class=\"smcap\">Chap. vi.</span>—8. But as regards his saying, \"Nor let any one\r\naffirm that what they have received from the apostles, that\r\nthey follow; for the apostles handed down only one Church\r\nand one baptism, and that appointed only in the same\r\nChurch;\"<a id=\"FNanchor_206_206\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_206_206\">[206]</a> this does not so much move me to venture to\r\ncondemn the baptism of Christ when found amongst heretics\r\n(just as it is necessary to recognise the gospel itself when I\r\nfind it with them, though I abominate their error), as it warns\r\nme that there were some even in the times of the holy\r\nCyprian who traced to the authority of the apostles that\r\ncustom against which the African Councils were held, and in\r\nrespect of which he himself said a little above, \"In vain do\r\nthose who are beaten by reason oppose to us the authority of\r\ncustom.\" Nor do I find the reason why the same Cyprian\r\nfound this very custom, which after his time was confirmed\r\nby nothing less than a general Council of the whole world,\r\nalready so strong before his time, that when with all his learning\r\nhe sought an authority worth following for changing it,\r\nhe found nothing but a Council of Agrippinus held in Africa\r\na very few years before his own time. And seeing that this\r\nwas not enough for him, as against the custom of the whole\r\nworld, he laid hold on these reasons which we just now, considering\r\nthem with great care, and being confirmed by the antiquity\r\nof the custom itself, and by the subsequent authority\r\nof a general Council, found to be truth-like rather than true;\r\nwhich, however, seemed to him true, as he toiled in a question\r\nof the greatest obscurity, and was in doubt about the\r\nremission of sins,—whether it could fail to be given in the<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_87\">[Pg 87]</a></span>\r\nbaptism of Christ, and whether it could be given among\r\nheretics. In which matter, if an imperfect revelation of the\r\ntruth was given to Cyprian, that the greatness of his love in\r\nnot deserting the unity of the Church might be made manifest,\r\nthere is yet not any reason why any one should venture\r\nto claim superiority over the strong defences and excellence of\r\nhis virtues, and the abundance of graces which were found in\r\nhim, merely because, with the instruction derived from the\r\nstrength of a general Council, he sees something which Cyprian\r\ndid not see, because the Church had not yet held a general\r\nCouncil on the matter. Just as no one is so insane as to set\r\nhimself up as surpassing the merits of the Apostle Peter,\r\nbecause, taught by the epistles of the Apostle Paul, and confirmed\r\nby the custom of the Church herself, he does not compel\r\nthe Gentiles to Judaize, as Peter once had done.<a id=\"FNanchor_207_207\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_207_207\">[207]</a></p>","headings":["WRITINGS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DONATIST CONTROVERSY.","BOOK FOURTH."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45843-paragraph-133"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"6cc5050e64ce5df1e918cc93d000f4ec25f0f7cdf5bac5b19fb2e10e6812d5a3","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. 14","verse":14,"verse_end":14}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45843-Footnote_207_207","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_207_207","source_ebook":45843,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_207_207\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_207_207\"><span class=\"label\">[207]</span></a> Gal. ii. 14.</p></div>","source_sha256":"a7a04003f4d3c49eb73db6c5936713979fcecadd86884373a9914ac54373ac5b","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45843/pg45843-images.html#Footnote_207_207","text_sha256":"4cc9e9ce223a0e52f4d0f5367438715a244f3cc63f0070df9022220d1f753659","verified":false,"work_id":null}