NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS EDINBURGH, _April 1872_. Messrs. Clark have much pleasure in publishing the Second Issue of the Works of ST. AUGUSTINE, viz.:-- WRITINGS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DONATIST CONTROVERSY. THE ANTI-PELAGIAN WORKS OF ST. AUGUSTINE, Vol. I. They thank their Subscribers for the kindness with which this new enterprise has been received, and they assure them that no pains will be spared either by Editor or by Publisher to make it worthy of success. The First Issue of Second Year will be published about OCTOBER, and will comprise the First Volume of the LETTERS, and probably the TREATISES against FAUSTUS the MANICHÆAN. Now that the ANTE-NICENE SERIES is complete, they trust that as many as possible of those who have subscribed to it will extend their Subscriptions to the WORKS OF ST. AUGUSTINE. They take this early opportunity of intimating that they intend to follow this Series with the WORKS OF ST. CHRYSOSTOM, but it is by far too early to make any more definite announcement. An early remittance of the Subscription for Second Year of ST. AUGUSTINE will greatly oblige. THE WORKS OF AURELIUS AUGUSTINE, BISHOP OF HIPPO. _A NEW TRANSLATION._ Edited by the REV. MARCUS DODS, M.A. VOL. III. WRITINGS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DONATIST CONTROVERSY. EDINBURGH: T. & T. CLARK, 38, GEORGE STREET. MDCCCLXXII. PRINTED BY MURRAY AND GIBB, FOR T. & T. CLARK, EDINBURGH. LONDON, HAMILTON, ADAMS, AND CO. DUBLIN, JOHN ROBERTSON AND CO. NEW YORK, C. SCRIBNER AND CO. WRITINGS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DONATIST CONTROVERSY. Translated by the REV. J. R. KING, M.A., VICAR OF ST. PETER'S IN THE EAST, OXFORD; AND LATE FELLOW AND TUTOR OF MERTON COLLEGE, OXFORD. EDINBURGH: T. & T. CLARK, 38, GEORGE STREET. MDCCCLXXII. CONTENTS. ON BAPTISM, AGAINST THE DONATISTS. BOOK I. PAGE He proves that baptism can be conferred outside the Catholic communion by heretics or schismatics, but that it ought not to be received from them; and that it is of no avail to any while in a state of heresy or schism, 1 BOOK II. In which Augustine proves that it is to no purpose that the Donatists bring forward the authority of Cyprian, bishop and martyr, since it is really more opposed to them than to the Catholics. For that he held that the view of his predecessor Agrippinus, on the subject of baptizing heretics in the Catholic Church when they join its communion, should only be received on condition that peace should be maintained with those who entertained the opposite view, and that the unity of the Church should never be broken by any kind of schism, 31 BOOK III.