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On Baptism, against the Donatists
Blessed Augustine, NPNF I.4
Another Julianus of Marcelliana said: “If a man can serve two masters, God and mammon, …
Another Julianus of Marcelliana1 said: “If a man can serve two masters, God and mammon,2 then baptism also can serve two, the Christian and the heretic.”3
Truly, if it can serve the self-restrained and the covetous man, the sober and the drunken, the well-affectioned and the murderer, why should it not also serve the Christian and the heretic?—whom, indeed, it does not really serve; but it ministers to them, and is administered by them, for salvation to those who use it right, and for judgment to such as use it wrong.
Notes
- Marcelliana (Gyrnmarcelli) in ecclesiastical province of Numidia.
- Matt. vi. 24.
- Conc. Carth. sec. 66.