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“They had not become extinct when in the seventh century the Saracens
occupied the territory and destroyed the African church.” f552
Guericke:
“Relics of this great party continued to exist until about the year 600,
evincing even in their fragments the power of a mistaken belief, and the
wrongs of ecclesiastical, civil persecution.” f553
Of Africa, A.D. 427, Wadington says:
“When it was discovered by Belisarius, more than a hundred years afterwards,
after 427, the sect of the Donatists was still found to exist there as a separate
communion. … We are told that it dwindled into insignificance about the end
of the sixth century, but it is not improbable that the Saracen invaders of
Numidia found thorn some few years later, the remnant of a sect not ill
disposed to favor any invader, nor unmindful of the sufferings of their
ancestors.” f554
The Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia says:
“In the fifth century the Novatians had … many churches … the party lived
on until the sixth or seventh century.” f555
Kurtz says:
“Owing to the moral earnestness of their principles, even those bishops who
took a different view from theirs were disposed to regard them more
favorably; and almost throughout the Roman Empire Novatian communities
sprang up, of which remnants existed as late as the sixth century.” f556
Socrates, in his Ecclesiastical History tells us of many Novatian churches
existing in Rome in the fifth century. Books V, section XIV; VII, sections IX
and XIV.: “Many of whose churches;”: “their assemblies within the city” are
some of the phrases which Socrates uses of the Donatists.
Wadington:
“They subsisted until the fifth century throughout Christendom.” f557
Schaff says:
“In spite of strong opposition the Novatian sect, by virtue of its moral
earnestness, propagated itself in various provinces of the West and East to the
fifth century.” f558
Of the Montanists Kurtz says:
“Still the sect of the Tertullianists continued in Africa for a long time.” f559
Guericke: