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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
prayer_n	forgive_v	pray_v	trespass_n	2,036	5	11.2620	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A49120	The history of the Donatists by Thomas Long ...	Long, Thomas, 1621-1707.	1677 (1677)	Wing L2971; ESTC R1027	83,719	176

and Reaso●● And for their practices his sole Authority is alledged against the Authority and practice of the Church St. Cyprian in an Epistle to Julian●● said Baptizandos esse in Ecclesiâ Catholicâ qui fuerunt in haeresi sc●●● mate baptizati to which St. Augustine a●swereth Ego ejus authoritate non teneor q●●literas Cypriani non ut canonicas habeo sed e●ex canonicis considero quod in iis divinar●● Scripturarum authoritati congruit cum lau●● ejus accipio quod autem non congruit cum pa●●● ejus respuo i.e. Though St. Cyprian ho●● that they who have been baptized by Hereticks or Schismaticks ought to be rebaptized yet I am not bound by the authority of St. Cyprian whose Epistles I do not esteem of as Canonical but do judge of them by the Cano●● of Scripture and what agreeth to the authority thereof I receive to his praise but what is contrary I refuse with his peace And whereas they had pleaded that Conscientis sancte dantis attenditur quae abluat accipientis that the efficacy of the Sacrament flowed from the holiness of him that administred it Saint Augustine answered that as to the visible Ministry both good and bad might baptize but he to whom both the visible Baptisme and the invisible Grace doth belong doth invisibly baptize by both good and bad Contr. Cresconium l. 2 do But it as a sad kind of Baptisme which was practised by Crispine the Donatist who with his Money hired some to be rebaptized by him and having got a Number of poor People together that would not be corrupted by his Money he drove them by force into a River and Vno terroris impetu octoginta fermè animas rebaptizando submerfit Drowning them in the Water baptized them with their own bloud St. August l. 2. contra Petil. The cruelties and mischiefs that have always followed Anabaptistical Principles may cause all sober persons to abhor them and therefore I shall not repeat any other arguments against this absurd practice which as St. Augustine says if it should be repeated as often as it was administred by an unholy person they need to do nothing else but rebaptize Another Opinion of the Donatists was that the Church of Christ ought to consist only of such as were Holy and Undefiled Against this those two Fathers pleaded That the glory of a Prince consisted much in the extent of his Dominions and that God had promised to give unto his Son the Heathen for his inheritance and the uttermost ends of the Earth for his possession and therefore they were very sacrilegious to confine the Church of Christ to their own Conventicles especially seeing God had according to his promise planted the Christian Faith among all Nations And that Christ had foretold that as the Seed of the Faithful should be disseminated over the face of the whole Earth so the Devil should sow his tares in the same Field From this Opinion of being more pure than others they proceeded at length to think themselves without sin as the Novatians or Cathari had boasted before them and therefore they refused to joyn in the fame Prayers with others or to use that Petition of our Lord's Prayer Forgive us our trespasses but as the Pharisee of old stood by himself and prayed God I thank thee I am not as other men Opt. p. 57. So would Donatus Non habeo quod ignoscat Deus I know nothing for which I may ask God forgiveness said he To this St. Augustine replyeth Christophorus Justellus in Codice Canonum Ecclesiae Africanae Canone 108. haec habet Quod in Oratione Dominica Sancti pro se dicunt Dimitte nobis debita nostra Placuit ut quicunque dixerit in Oratione Dominicâ Sanctos dicere Dimitte nobis debita nostra non pro scipsis quia nonest iis xecessaria ista petitio sed pro aliis qui sunt in suo populo peccatores ideo non dicere unumquemque Sanctorum Dimitte debita mea sed debita nostra us hoc pro aliis potius quam pro so justus picere intelligatur Anathema sit Item placuit ut quicunque epsa verba Dominicae Orationis ubi dicimus Dimitte nobis debita nostra 〈◊〉 volunt à sanctis dici ut humiliter non veraciter hoc dicatur Anathema sit Quis enim ferat Orantem non hominibus sed ipsi Domino mentientem qui labiis sibi dicit dimitti velle corde dicit quae sibi dimitrantur debita non habere This Council was held at Carthage by Aurelius and 214. Bishops Honorio xii Theodosio Coss kmal●majas Quaero utrum ores oratione Dominicâ si non unde aliam didicisti pro majoribus meritis tuis excedentem merita Apostolorum si sic quomodo dicis Dimitte nobis debita nostra c. Ista verba orationis aut te non permittunt esse dei deprecatorem aut aperiunt esse peccatorem but when they left the use of that Prayer he would no longer call them Brethren Tum desinent dici fratres nostri In Ps 32. cum desierint dicere Pater noster And now it is no wonder if they despised the usual Prayers of the Church and particularly that Form which was made in behalf of the Emperor Bz. p. 550. But they went a point beyond this affirming that they were so without sin Opt. p. 56. as to be the Justifiers of others who no sooner were admitted to their Congregations but they presently assured them of the pardon of their sins and if they suffered in their Society of a Crown of Martyrdome And Donatus himself exceeded all these he became a perfect Enthissiast and pretended immediate revelations from God August Epist 165. particularly that an Angel had appeared to him and assured him that his Faction should be established And it was a frequent boast of the Donatists against the Catholicks Oravit Donatus respondit ei Deus è Coelo When Donatus prays God answereth him from Heaven and therefore to him they went as to an Oracle when they would attempt any design that he might seek God and then give them direction To this Optatus replies Opt. p. 84. Vt quid pulsetis Coelum cum hic in Evangelio habetis testamentum In vain do you expect new revelations from Heaven having the compleat will and testament of Christ here on Earth Agreeable to that of Tertullian before him St. Aug. de unico Baptis Non opus est revelatione post Evangelium c. They held it to be a pollution not only to communicate but to converse with others There wants nothing now but a Spirit of Infallibility to make him the great Antichrist instead of which he had infallibly the Spirit of Contradiction to carp at and reproach every thing that was not agreeable to his own fancy When we say yea Opt. p. 84. you say nay saith Optatus Et inter Licet nostrum Non licet vestrum