{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>16. Now, therefore, the question is, how could men of the\r\nparty of the devil belong to the Church, which has no spot,\r\nor wrinkle, or any such thing,<a id=\"FNanchor_233_233\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_233_233\">[233]</a> of which also it is said, \"My\r\ndove is one?\"<a id=\"FNanchor_234_234\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_234_234\">[234]</a> But if they cannot, it is clear that she groans\r\namong those who are not of her, some treacherously laying\r\nwait within, some barking at her gate without. Such men,\r\nhowever, even within, both receive baptism, and possess it, and\r\ntransmit it holy in itself; nor is it in any way defiled by their\r\nwickedness, in which they persevere even to the end. Wherefore\r\nthe same blessed Cyprian teaches us that baptism is to be\r\nconsidered as consecrated in itself by the words of the gospel,\r\nas the Church has received, without joining to it or mingling\r\nwith it any consideration of waywardness and wickedness on\r\nthe part of either minister or recipients; since he himself\r\npoints out to us both truths,—both that there have been some\r\nwithin the Church who did not cherish kindly Christian love,\r\nbut practised envy and unkind dissension, of whom the Apostle\r\nPaul spoke; and also that the envious belong to the devil's\r\nparty, as he testifies in the most open way in the epistle which\r\nhe wrote about envy and malignity. Wherefore, since it is\r\nclearly possible that in those who belong to the devil's party,\r\nChrist's sacrament may yet be holy,—not, indeed, to their salvation,\r\nbut to their condemnation,—and that not only if they\r\nare led astray after they have been baptized, but even if they\r\nwere such in heart when they received the sacrament, renouncing\r\nthe world (as the same Cyprian shows) in words\r\nonly and not in deeds;<a id=\"FNanchor_235_235\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_235_235\">[235]</a> and since even if afterwards they be\r\nbrought into the right way, the sacrament is not to be again\r\nadministered which they received when they were astray; so\r\nfar as I can see, the case is clear and evident, that in the\r\nquestion of baptism we have to consider, not who gives, but\r\nwhat he gives; not who receives, but what he receives; not\r\nwho has, but what he has. For if men of the party of the<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_95\">[Pg 95]</a></span>\r\ndevil, and therefore in no way belonging to the one dove, can\r\nyet receive, and have, and give baptism in all its holiness, in\r\nno way defiled by their waywardness, as we are taught by the\r\nletters of Cyprian himself, how are we ascribing to heretics\r\nwhat does not belong to them? how are we saying that what\r\nis really Christ's is theirs, and not rather recognising in them\r\nthe signs of our Sovereign, and correcting the deeds of deserters\r\nfrom Him? Wherefore it is one thing, as the holy Cyprian\r\nsays, \"for those within, in the Church, to speak in the name\r\nof Christ, another thing for those without, who are acting\r\nagainst the Church, to baptize in His name.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_236_236\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_236_236\">[236]</a> But both\r\nmany who are within act against the Church by evil living,\r\nand by enticing weak souls to copy their lives; and some who\r\nare without speak in Christ's name, and are not forbidden to\r\nwork the works of Christ, but only to be without, since for\r\nthe healing of their souls we grasp at them, or reason with\r\nthem, or exhort them. For he, too, was without who did not\r\nfollow Christ with His disciples, and yet in Christ's name was\r\ncasting out devils, which the Lord enjoined that he should not\r\nbe prevented from doing;<a id=\"FNanchor_237_237\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_237_237\">[237]</a> although, certainly, in the point\r\nwhere he was imperfect he was to be made whole, in accordance\r\nwith the words of the Lord, in which He says, \"He that\r\nis not with me is against me; and he that gathereth not with\r\nme scattereth abroad.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_238_238\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_238_238\">[238]</a> Therefore both some things are done\r\noutside in the name of Christ not against the Church, and\r\nsome things are done inside on the devil's part which are\r\nagainst the Church.</p>","headings":["WRITINGS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DONATIST CONTROVERSY.","BOOK FOURTH."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45843-paragraph-141"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"597ece284495b52c1bbfca7b65e411a90789a0771b70ab1de47d627e24e1638a","edition_title":"Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy","edition_translators":["John Richard King"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"LUK","chapter":9,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Luke ix. 49","verse":49,"verse_end":49}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45843-Footnote_237_237","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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