{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>12. To this I answer, that all who even within the Church\r\nprofess that they know God, but deny Him in their deeds,\r\nsuch as are the covetous and envious, and those who, because\r\nthey hate their brethren, are pronounced to be murderers, not\r\non my testimony, but on that of the holy Apostle John,<a id=\"FNanchor_410_410\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_410_410\">[410]</a>—all\r\nthese are both devoid of hope, because they have a bad conscience;\r\nand are faithless, because they do not do what they have\r\nvowed to God; and liars, because they make false professions;\r\nand possessed of devils, because they give place in their heart to\r\nthe devil and his angels; and their words work corruption, since\r\nthey corrupt good manners by evil communications; and they\r\nare infidels, because they laugh at the threats which God utters\r\nagainst such men; and accursed, because they live wickedly;\r\nand antichrists, because their lives are opposed to Christ; and\r\ncursed of God, since holy Scripture everywhere calls down\r\ncurses on such men; and dead, because they are without the\r\nlife of righteousness; and unpeaceful, because by their contrary\r\ndeeds they are at variance with God's behests; and\r\nblasphemous, because by their abandoned acts despite is done\r\nto the name of Christian; and profane, because they are spiritually\r\nshut out from that inner sanctuary of God; and sacrilegious,\r\nbecause by their evil life they defile the temple of\r\nGod within themselves; and servants of the devil, because\r\nthey do service to fraud and covetousness, which is idolatry.<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_160\">[Pg 160]</a></span>\r\nThat of such a kind are some, nay very many, even within\r\nthe Church, is testified both by Paul the apostle and by\r\nCyprian the bishop. Why, then, do they baptize? Why also\r\nare some, who renounce the world in words and not in deeds,\r\nbaptized without being converted from a life like this, and not\r\nrebaptized when they are converted? And as to what he says\r\nwith such indignation, \"See the kind of things to which the\r\nChurch is compelled to assent, being forced to communicate\r\nwithout baptism or the remission of sins,\" he could never\r\nhave used such expressions had there not been the other\r\nbishops who elsewhere forced men to such things. Whence\r\nalso it is shown that at that time those men held the truer\r\nviews who did not depart from the primitive custom, which is\r\nsince confirmed by the consent of a general Council. But\r\nwhat does he mean by adding, \"This, brethren, we ought to\r\nshun and avoid, separating ourselves from so great a sin?\"\r\nFor if he means that he is not to do nor to approve of this,\r\nthat is another matter; but if he means to condemn and sever\r\nfrom him those that hold the contrary opinion, he is setting\r\nhimself against the earlier words of Cyprian, \"Judging no\r\nman, nor depriving any of the right of communion if he differ\r\nfrom us.\"</p>","headings":["WRITINGS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DONATIST CONTROVERSY.","BOOK SIXTH."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45843-paragraph-213"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"043ec6a474ad945d5a70c03d20be444c162002d5ca6ade614eb173d920534a12","edition_title":"Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy","edition_translators":["John Richard King"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"1JN","chapter":3,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"1 John iii. 15","verse":15,"verse_end":15}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45843-Footnote_410_410","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_410_410","source_ebook":45843,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_410_410\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_410_410\"><span class=\"label\">[410]</span></a> 1 John iii. 15.</p></div>","source_sha256":"a7a04003f4d3c49eb73db6c5936713979fcecadd86884373a9914ac54373ac5b","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45843/pg45843-images.html#Footnote_410_410","text_sha256":"334f6c1460eb473edead83ffd36ccb2c6388c3adc4dc4ab40ffa4d3861c60d24","verified":false,"work_id":null}