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Augustine, Saint Augustine. D. Aurerii Augustini Hipponensis Episcopi ton polemikos pars secunda, Hoc est, pugnarum adversus Haereses, Tome Septimi pars prior….Lugduni Apud Sebastianum Honoratum M. D. LXII. Octavo 900,[25] pages. With Lugduni, excudabat Jacobus Fourus on recto of last leaf. Early, perhaps contemporary leather binding, gilt devices on front and back boards, spine gilt-decorated, with a chip at top and split in leather. Light upper-corner staining on pages ~360-585, other occasional light staining. Early light pen writing an first two leaves. This volume consists primarily of Augustine s polemics against the donatists. Included are polemics against Donatus, Parmenianus, Petilianus, Cresconius Grammaticus, Gaudentius, and Petilianus. Included also are a polemic on Baptism against the Donatists, general attacks on Donatists. and a Collation to the effect that his side had been declared by Constantine to be the true Church). The last piece is On the Merits and Forgiveness of Sins, and on the Baptism of Infants to Marcellinus. With an index. The Donatists were purists who held that priests who had renounced their faith during persecutions could not validly administer the sacraments. Augustine held, briefly, that the sacraments depended on the spiritual bond of the Church to Christ, not the character of the priest. He also argues that, since Donatists had cut themselves off from the true church (and so that spiritual bond) their baptisms, etc. were correct in form, but ineffective. Infant baptism played a role in the doctrine of original sin, which provided something from which newborns needed to be cleansed. Seller Inventory # ABE-1571169022443
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