Chapter 33

Chapter 33.—64.  Donatulus of Capse ¹⁸⁴⁷ said:  "I also have always entertained this opinion, that heretics, who have gained nothing outside the Church, should be baptized when they are converted to the Church." ¹⁸⁴⁸

65.  To this the answer is:  They have, indeed, gained nothing outside the Church, but that is nothing towards salvation, not nothing towards the sacrament.  For salvation is peculiar to the good; but the sacraments are common to the good and bad alike.

Footnotes

507:1847

Capse was in ecclesiastical province of Byzacene.  This Donatulus is probably to be identified with the one mentioned Cypr. Ep. lvi.

507:1848

Conc. Carth. sec. 69.