{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>233. To go on to the other earlier arguments which you\r\nhave set before us to be refuted, they are of such a nature\r\nthat we must needs allow that every one returns from baptism\r\nendued with the character of him by whom he is baptized;\r\nbut God forbid that those whom you baptize should return\r\nfrom you infected with the same madness as possesses you\r\nwhen you make such a statement! And what a dainty sound\r\nthere was in your words, \"You are drenched with deceit, you\r\nare drenched with wickedness, you are drenched also with\r\nmadness!\" Surely you would never pour forth words like this\r\nunless you were, not drenched, but filled even to repletion\r\nwith madness. Is it then true, to say nothing of the rest,\r\nthat all who come untainted with covetousness to receive\r\nbaptism at the hands of your covetous colleagues, or the priests\r\nof your party, return guilty of covetousness, and that those\r\nwho run in soberness to the whirlpool of intoxication to be\r\nbaptized return in drunkenness? If you entertain and teach\r\nsuch views as this, you will have the effrontery even to quote,\r\nas making against us, the passage which you advanced some\r\nlittle time ago: \"It is better to trust in the Lord than to put\r\nany confidence in man. It is better to trust in the Lord than\r\nto put any confidence in princes.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_991_991\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_991_991\">[991]</a> What is the meaning of\r\nyour teaching, I would ask, save only this, that we should put\r\nour confidence, not in the Lord, but in man, when you say that<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_392\">[Pg 392]</a></span>\r\nthe baptized person is made to resemble him who has baptized\r\nhim? And since you assume this as the fundamental principle\r\nof your baptism, are men to place their trust in you?\r\nand are those to place their trust in princes who were disposed\r\nto place it in the Lord? Truly I would bid them hearken\r\nnot to you, but rather to those proofs which you have urged\r\nagainst ourselves, ay, and to words more awful yet; for not\r\nonly is it written, \"It is better to trust in the Lord than to\r\nput confidence in man,\" but also, \"Cursed be the man that\r\ntrusteth in man.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_992_992\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_992_992\">[992]</a></p>","headings":["WRITINGS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DONATIST CONTROVERSY.","BOOK SECOND."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45843-paragraph-662"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"b98a26025e07546a154fad0a45f20bb03fcbcbc117e7838526b48b76a0e2749f","edition_title":"Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy","edition_translators":["John Richard King"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"PSA","chapter":118,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Ps. cxviii. 8","verse":8,"verse_end":8}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45843-Footnote_991_991","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_991_991","source_ebook":45843,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_991_991\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_991_991\"><span class=\"label\">[991]</span></a> Ps. cxviii. 8, 9.</p></div>","source_sha256":"a7a04003f4d3c49eb73db6c5936713979fcecadd86884373a9914ac54373ac5b","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45843/pg45843-images.html#Footnote_991_991","text_sha256":"d86b80c10264186830af9bb01ed1c102927e59140f8208d20d59d7618e55059e","verified":false,"work_id":null}