Writings in Connection with the Donatist ControversyAugustine, of Hippo, Saint
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Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy
Augustine, of Hippo, Saint
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Church, had gone over to heresy." For if even they themselves had lost
baptism by seceding, to themselves also let it be restored; but if they
had not lost it, let what was given by them receive due recognition.
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CHAP. XXX.--57. Another Januarius of Vicus Cæsaris[488] said: "If error
does not obey truth, much more does truth refuse assent to error; and
therefore we stand by the Church in which we preside, so that, claiming
her baptism for herself alone, we baptize those whom the Church has not
baptized."
58. We answer: Whom the Church baptizes, those that rock baptizes
outside which are all they who hear the words of Christ and do them
not. Let all, therefore, be baptized again who have been baptized by
such. But if this is not done, then, as we recognise the baptism of
Christ in these, so should we recognise it in heretics, though we
either condemn or correct their unrighteousness and error.
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CHAP. XXXI.--59. Another Secundinus of Carpis[489] said: "Are heretics
Christians or not? If they are Christians, why are they not in the
Church of God? If they are not Christians, let them be made so.[490]
Else what will be the reference in the discourse of the Lord, in
which He says, 'He that is not with me is against me; and he that
gathereth not with me scattereth abroad?'[491] Whence it is clear that
on strange children and the offspring of Antichrist the Holy Spirit
cannot descend by the laying on of hands alone, since it is clear that
heretics have not baptism."
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