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“The chief cause of their schism was their abhorrence of communion with traitors.” f167 Neander says the Donatists, claimed: “When the church, however widely extended, becomes corrupt by intercourse with unworthy members, then that church,in whatever work and corner of the earth it might be which had no manifestly vicious members within its pale is the genuine Catholic church.” f168 Guericke says: “The after of the Christian church would have been very different … had it once more resorted to the primitive discipline and hedged up the way to the multitudes of unconverted persons who were crowding into it, and had it sought, not indeed by a more artificial organization, but in the exercise of a deeper and simpler faith in God, to render the church more self-consistent and less dependent upon the State.” f169 These historians make very clear that in the third and fourth centuries, Montanism, Novatianism and Donatism were the great witnesses for New Testament church membership. Between the Baptists and their opponents was the contest that has been the contest ever since and which to-day is the great contest between Baptist and others, viz.: a regenerate or an unregenerate church. But, I will give the reader a sample of their debates over this question: To the argument of Augustine, that the parable of the wheat and tares growing together till the end of the age taught that known unworthy members ought to be retained in the churches, the Donatists replied: “The field, the Lord says, is the world, therefore not the church, but this world, in which the good and the bad dwell together till the harvest; that is, they are reserved till the judgment day.” This interpretation, which is that given by our Lord, they asserted, could not be gainsaid, since, said they, if the Apostles, the companions of our Lord himself, should have learned from the tares, that is, the children of the devil, springing up in the church by the neglect of discipline, were to be left in the communion of the saints, they never would have expelled from the thresholds of their churches, Simon, Erastus, Philetus, Alexander, Demas, Hermogenes, and others like them. Yes, indeed, said the reforming Donatists, the mixed policy of the Catholics would make void the whole public instructions throughout the divine writings pertaining to the separation of the wounded from the sound, the polluted from the clean.” f170
Any one who is familiar with the present controversy between the Baptists and their opponents will readily recognize that both sides and arguments are represented in the Donatist controversy. It has been charged that the Donatist held to infant baptism. In reply (1.) As no church that ever believed in infant baptism held so tenaciously to converted church membership and spirituality, as did the Donatists, and as infant baptism and such a church are irreconcilably antagonistic, that the Donatists opposed infant baptism is evident. “Their principles would undoubtedly lead them to the rejection of infant baptism.” f171 (2.) History otherwise refutes the charge. Says Armitage, “Long says: ‘They refused infant baptism.’” f172 Long was an Episcopalian and wrote a history of the Donatists. Guy de Bres said: “That they demanded that baptized infants ought to be baptized again as adults.” Augustine, replying to the Donatists: “Do you ask for divine authority in this matter? Though that which the whole church practices is very reasonably believed to be no other than a thing delivered by the Apostles, yet we may take a true estimate, how much the sacrament of baptism does profit infants, beg the circumcision which God’s former people received.” f173 Osiander, says: “Our modern Anabaptists are the same as the Donatists of old.” Fuller, Episcopalian: “The Anabaptists are the Donatists new dipt.” f174 As the Anabaptists were especially noted for opposition to infant baptism, Fuller’s statement is very clearly against the Donatists having baptized infants. Bullinger is often quoted as saying: “The Donatists and the Anabaptists held the same opinion.” Twick, Chron. b. 6, p. 201, says: “The followers of Donatus were all one with the Anabaptists, denying baptism to children, admitting believers only thereto who desired the same, and maintaining that none ought to be forced to any belief.” f175 D’Anvers, in his Treatise on Baptism, says:
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Any one who is familiar with the present controversy between the <strong>Baptist</strong>s and<br />
their opponents will readily recognize that both sides and arguments are<br />
represented in the Donatist controversy.<br />
It has been charged that the Donatist held to infant baptism. In reply<br />
(1.) As no church that ever believed in infant baptism held so tenaciously to<br />
converted church membership and spirituality, as did the Donatists, and as<br />
infant baptism and such a church are irreconcilably antagonistic, that the<br />
Donatists opposed infant baptism is evident. “Their principles would<br />
undoubtedly lead them to the rejection of infant baptism.” f171<br />
(2.) History otherwise refutes the charge. Says Armitage, “Long says: ‘They<br />
refused infant baptism.’” f172<br />
Long was an Episcopalian and wrote a history of the Donatists.<br />
Guy de Bres said: “That they demanded that baptized infants ought to be<br />
baptized again as adults.”<br />
Augustine, replying to the Donatists:<br />
“Do you ask for divine authority in this matter? Though that which the whole<br />
church practices is very reasonably believed to be no other than a thing<br />
delivered by the Apostles, yet we may take a true estimate, how much the<br />
sacrament of baptism does profit infants, beg the circumcision which God’s<br />
former people received.” f173<br />
Osiander, says:<br />
“Our modern Anabaptists are the same as the Donatists of old.”<br />
Fuller, Episcopalian:<br />
“The Anabaptists are the Donatists new dipt.” f174<br />
As the Anabaptists were especially noted for opposition to infant baptism,<br />
Fuller’s statement is very clearly against the Donatists having baptized infants.<br />
Bullinger is often quoted as saying:<br />
“The Donatists and the Anabaptists held the same opinion.”<br />
Twick, Chron. b. 6, p. 201, says:<br />
“The followers of Donatus were all one with the Anabaptists, denying<br />
baptism to children, admitting believers only thereto who desired the same,<br />
and maintaining that none ought to be forced to any belief.” f175<br />
D’Anvers, in his Treatise on Baptism, says:
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