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On the Correction of the Donatists

Blessed Augustine, NPNF I.4

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2. I must express my satisfaction, and congratulations, and admiration, my son Boniface, in …
3. I would add, moreover, that they themselves, by making it the subject of an accusation, …
4. But those who are unacquainted with their habits think that they only kill themselves now…
5. And indeed, before those laws were put in force by the emperors of the Catholic faith, …
6. But as to the argument of those men who are unwilling that their impious deeds should be …
7. It is indeed better (as no one ever could deny) that men should be led to worship God by …
8. However, before those laws were sent into Africa by which men are compelled to come in to…
9. But they, as we have sometimes said before in other places, do not charge themselves with…
10. As to the charge that they bring against us, that we covet and plunder their possessions,…
11. But this, they say, is the very thing which disquiets us,—If we are unrighteous, …
12. But as to what they say, arguing as follows: If we have sinned against the Holy Ghost, in…