{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p><span class=\"smcap\">Chap. xviii.</span>—23. \"As my Father hath sent me,\" says our\r\nLord, \"even so send I you. And when He had said this, He\r\nbreathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy\r\nGhost. Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto\r\nthem; and whose soever sins ye retain, they are retained.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_154_154\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_154_154\">[154]</a>\r\nTherefore, if they represented the Church, and this was said\r\nto them as to the Church herself, it follows that the peace of\r\nthe Church looses sins, and estrangement from the Church\r\nretains them, not according to the will of men, but according\r\nto the will of God and the prayers of the saints who are\r\nspiritual, who \"judge all things, but themselves are judged of\r\nno man.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_155_155\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_155_155\">[155]</a> For the rock retains, the rock remits; the dove\r\nretains, the dove remits; unity retains, unity remits. But the\r\npeace of this unity exists only in the good, in those who are\r\neither already spiritual, or are advancing by the obedience of\r\nconcord to spiritual things; it exists not in the bad, whether\r\nthey make disturbances abroad, or are endured within the<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_72\">[Pg 72]</a></span>\r\nChurch with lamentations, baptizing and being baptized. But\r\njust as those who are tolerated with groanings within the\r\nChurch, although they do not belong to the same unity of the\r\ndove, and to that \"glorious Church, not having spot or wrinkle,\r\nor any such thing,\"<a id=\"FNanchor_156_156\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_156_156\">[156]</a> yet if they are corrected, and confess\r\nthat they approached to baptism most unworthily, are not\r\nbaptized again, but begin to belong to the dove, through whose\r\ngroans those sins are remitted which were retained in them\r\nwho were estranged from her peace; so those also who are\r\nmore openly without the Church, if they have received the\r\nsame sacraments, are not freed from their sins on coming, after\r\ncorrection, to the unity of the Church, by a repetition of baptism,\r\nbut by the same law of charity and bond of unity. For\r\nif \"those only may baptize who are set over the Church, and\r\nestablished by the law of the gospel and ordination as appointed\r\nby the Lord,\" were they in any wise of this kind who seized\r\non estates by treacherous frauds, and increased their gains by\r\ncompound interest? I trow not, since those are established\r\nby ordination as appointed of the Lord, of whom the apostle,\r\nin giving them a standard, says, \"Not greedy, not given to\r\nfilthy lucre.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_157_157\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_157_157\">[157]</a> Yet men of this kind used to baptize in the time\r\nof Cyprian himself; and he confesses with many lamentations\r\nthat they were his fellow-bishops, and endures them with the\r\ngreat reward of tolerance. Yet did they not confer remission\r\nof sins, which is granted through the prayers of the saints,\r\nthat is, the groans of the dove, whoever it be that baptizes,\r\nif those to whom it is given belong to her peace. For the\r\nLord would not say to robbers and usurers, \"Whose soever sins\r\nye remit, they shall be remitted to him; and whose soever\r\nsins ye retain, they shall be retained.\" \"Outside the Church,\r\nindeed, nothing can be either bound or loosed, since there\r\nthere is no one who can either bind or loose;\" but he is loosed\r\nwho has made peace with the dove, and he is bound who is\r\nnot at peace with the dove, whether he is openly without, or\r\nappears to be within.</p>","headings":["WRITINGS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DONATIST CONTROVERSY.","BOOK THIRD."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45843-paragraph-118"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"c1902856131a6dcfc2c96fd72a7025036f2418a789910708f26cc2b434604dc9","edition_title":"Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy","edition_translators":["John Richard King"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"EPH","chapter":5,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Eph. v. 27","verse":27,"verse_end":27}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45843-Footnote_156_156","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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