Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy by Aurelius Augustine

Author:Aurelius Augustine [Augustine, Aurelius]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-08-15T00:00:00+00:00

Chap. xxiv. —56. Petilianus said: "But you will answer that you abide by the same declaration, 'He that is once washed needeth not save to wash his feet.' [769] Now the 'once' is once that has authority, once that is confirmed by the truth."

57. Augustine answered: Baptism in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost [770] has Christ for its authority, not any man, whoever he may be; and Christ is the truth, not any man.

Chap. xxv. —58. Petilianus said: "For when you in your guilt perform what is false, I do not celebrate baptism twice, which you have never celebrated once."

59. Augustine answered: In the first place, you do not convict us of guilt. And if a guilty man baptizes with a false baptism, then none of those have true baptism who are baptized by men in your party, that are, I do not say openly, but even secretly guilty. For if he who gives baptism gives something that is God's, if he is already guilty in the sight of God, how can he be giving something that is God's, if a guilty man cannot give true baptism? But in reality you wait till he is guilty in your sight as well, as though what he proposes to confer were something that belonged to you.

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