{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p><span class=\"smcap\">Chap. xvi.</span>—23. Some one says, Does it then make no\r\ndifference, if two men, rooted in like error and wickedness, be\r\nbaptized without change of life or heart, one without, the\r\nother within the Church? I acknowledge that there is a\r\ndifference. For he is worse who is baptized without, in addition\r\nto his other sin,—not because of his baptism, however,<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_103\">[Pg 103]</a></span>\r\nbut because he is without; for the evil of division is in itself\r\nfar from insignificant or trivial. Yet the difference exists\r\nonly if he who is baptized within has desired to be within\r\nnot for the sake of any earthly or temporal advantage, but\r\nbecause he has preferred the unity of the Church spread\r\nthroughout the world to the divisions of schism; otherwise\r\nhe too must be considered among those who are without:\r\nLet us therefore put the two cases in this way. Let us suppose\r\nthat the one, for the sake of argument, held the same\r\nopinions as Photinus<a id=\"FNanchor_277_277\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_277_277\">[277]</a> about Christ, and was baptized in his\r\nheresy outside the communion of the Catholic Church; and\r\nthat another held the same opinion, but was baptized in the\r\nCatholic Church, believing that his view was really the\r\nCatholic faith. I consider him as not yet a heretic, unless,\r\nwhen the doctrine of the Catholic faith is made clear to him,\r\nhe chooses to resist it, and prefers that which he already\r\nholds; and till this is the case, it is clear that he who was\r\nbaptized outside is the worse. And so in the one case\r\nerroneous opinion alone, in the other the sin of schism also,\r\nrequires correction; but in neither of them is the truth of\r\nthe sacrament to be repeated. But if any one holds the\r\nsame view as the first, and knows that it is only in heresy\r\nsevered from the Church that such a view is taught or\r\nlearned, but yet for the sake of some temporal emolument\r\nhas desired to be baptized in the Catholic unity, or, having\r\nbeen already baptized in it, is unwilling on account of the\r\nsaid emolument to secede from it, he is not only to be considered\r\nas seceding, but his offence is aggravated, in so far as\r\nto the error of heresy and the division of unity he adds the\r\ndeceit of hypocrisy. Wherefore the depravity of each man,\r\nin proportion as it is more dangerous and wanting in straightforwardness,\r\nmust be corrected with the more earnestness and\r\nenergy; and yet, if he has anything that is good in him,\r\nespecially if it be not of himself, but from God, we ought\r\nnot to think it of no value because of his depravity, or to\r\nbe blamed like it, or to be ascribed to it, rather than to His<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_104\">[Pg 104]</a></span>\r\nbountiful goodness, who even to a soul that plays the harlot,\r\nand goes after her lovers, yet gives His bread, and His wine,\r\nand His oil, and other food or ornaments, which are neither\r\nfrom herself nor from her lovers, but from Him who in compassion\r\nfor her is even desirous to warn her to whom she\r\nshould return.<a id=\"FNanchor_278_278\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_278_278\">[278]</a></p>","headings":["WRITINGS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DONATIST CONTROVERSY.","BOOK FOURTH."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45843-paragraph-148"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"73211135438d70a77ed06a2c7b88fd53d9cde260d80602778fefef188297fdea","edition_title":"Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy","edition_translators":["John Richard King"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"HOS","chapter":2,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Hos. ii. 5-7","verse":5,"verse_end":7}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45843-Footnote_278_278","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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