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Of the Novatians, W.W. Everts, Jr., Says:
“They extended throughout the Roman Empire, from Armenia to Numedia, in
Spain. They were especially strong in Phrygia, where the Montanists fused
with them, and in the great cities, Constantinople, Alexandria, Carthage, and
Rome.” f546
Gieseler, says of the Novatians:
“This party was widley extended and continued for a long time. In Phrygia
they united with the remnant of the Montanists.” f457
Schaff, says of the Novatians:
“In Phrygia it combined with the remnants of the Montanists.” f458
Harnack, says:
“After the Decian persecution, the church of the Cathari.” i, e. Novatians —
and probably Donatists — “became consolidated. Many Montanist
congregations joined it, especially in Phrygia.” f549
From the statements of the historians, we see that Montanists and Novatians
were “united” together in church fellowship, that they excluded the so-called
Catholics instead of first being excluded themselves; and that instead of
Novatian being the founder of the Novatians, he was only the leader of
multitudes of churches which withdrew fellowship from the disorderly ones.
The Donatists holding the same doctrine and practice that the Montanists and
the Novatians held, and withdrawing fellowship from the corrupt part of the
churches, on the same complaint on which the Montanists and Novatians
withdrew from it, and to a great extent, contemporaneous and occupying the
same territory with them, could but have been in church fellowship with them.
While, like American and foreign Baptists, they may have possibly differed in
minor matters, they were evidently the same people.
Second. The Montanists, the Novatians and the Donatists perpetuated in the
Politicians.
Says Schaff:
“A remnant of the Donatists, as we learn from the letters of Gregory II,
perpetuated itself into the seventh century.” f550
Hase says: They
“struggled and suffered on till some time in the seventh century, and had
shown the prodigious power which even a mistaken faith may exert over
sincere, vigorous and gloomy dispositions.” f551
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