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Abraham, 422, 461, 527, 534, 537, 552, 563, 579, 622, 628.
Abraham’s seed, 534, 535, 538, 547, 548, 550.
Adelphius, bp. of Thasbalte, 497.
Africa, 426, 431, 433, 436, 437, 450, 483, 496, 526, 527, 528, 531, 543, 545, 550, 555, 577, 591, 595, 598, 600, 608, 622, 627, 638, 642, 644, 645, 650.
African, 524, 544, 588, 595, 608, 609, 615, 622, 628.
Africa Proconsularis, 505, 506, 507.
Agrippinus, bp. of Carthage, 425, 430, 431, 432, 436, 437, 440, 446, 450.
Antichrist, 445, 456, 485, 488, 493, 504, 507, 510.
Apollos, 521, 552, 617, 624, 625.
Archives, 524, 527, 538, 579, 581, 608, 615, 626, 627.
Assuras (Assavæ), 433, 507, 523, 524.
Augustin, 411, 425, 438, 460, 472, 473, 475, 476, 487, 490, 492, 493, 519, 522, 530, 539, 584, 596, 600, 601, 603, 604, 608, 616, 619, 621, 651.
Aurelius, bp. of Chullabi, 501, 509.
can be given outside, 411, 412, 424.
retained by schismatics and. heretics, 412, 446, 489, 502, 512.
profit of, only in the Church, 413, 441, 447. 509, 514, 527.
rightly received only in Catholic Church, 413, 483, 484, 488, 489, 505, 647.
exists, but not rightly received among Donatists, 413.
sin of receiving it outside, 414.
each Donatist sect claims the true, 415.
relation to remission of sins, 419, 440, 441, 450.
grace of may continue with constant sin, 420.
temporary experience of grace by wicked, 420.
not property of man, but Christ, 424, 438, 440, 454, 484, 501, 502, 545, 550, 554, 613, 615.
universal administration and reception, 430.
required by the Church for admission to her altar, 434.
unbaptized left to the mercy of God, 434.
water of, not polluted by man, 439, 440, 473.
relation of doctrinal belief to, 441, 442, 457, 458.
made valid by the formula, 442, 495, 530.
as administered by the evil within and without, 448, 483, 485.
distinction between rite and grace of, 448, 449–462, 472, 474, 475, 476, 505, 507, 510, 532.
relation of the bad within and the bad without, to, 451–460.
relation of character of ministrant and recipient to, 453, 456, 457, 474, 481, 490, 506, 520, 521, 522, 531, 551, 554, 590, 595, 601, 602, 622.
formula of, 449, 456, 487, 495, 545, 550, 591, 616, 620, 623.
for salvation within the Church, for judgment without, 453, 454, 480, 507.
water of, not adulterous among heretics, 458.
penitent thief not baptized with water, 460, 461, 462.
not invalidated by heretics, 464.
not justly or lawfully possessed by heretics, 466, 504.
untruth of among heretics, 484, 485, 503.
threefold nature of, 487, 488.
water of compared with rivers of Paradise, 501.
as one, not two, 503, 508, 545, 546.
necklace of the Bridegroom, 503.
lawfully given only in the Church, 503, 508.
as to way of cleansing one ignorantly polluted, 520.
by wicked ministrant most desirable according to Donatists, 522, 523, 619, 620, 621.
Christ alone given of grace, 531.
relation to origin, head and root, 531, 617, 622, 623, 624.
truth or falsity of Catholic, 545, 546, 547.
three grades of consecration, 547–550.
water of guilty, abandoned by the Holy Spirit, 589.
how cleanse one baptized by a defiled but unknown conscience? 604 sqq.
ministrant to be examined, 609.
if dependent on man, is a glorying in man, 609, 610.
perished from the world through the traditors, 616.
requires both the rite and the gospel, 626.
man not the justifier, but God 646.
Basilica, 433, 525, 540, 564, 579, 582, 615, 643.
Bizica Lucana (see Buslaceni).
Buslacene (Cussaceni, Bizica Lucana, Byzacium), 439, 507.
Byzacium (Byzacene) the ecclesiastical province, 487, 493, 495, 497, 499. 501, 502, 503, 504, 505, 507, 508, 509.
Byzacium, the capital (see Buslacene).
Cæcilian, 534, 536, 545, 578, 598, 608, 623, 634, 635, 636, 637, 639.
Canon, as to holy orders of penitents, 649.
Carthage, 412, 426, 433, 510, 578, 634, 635, 639.
Cassius, bp. of Macomades, 492, 493.
Catechumen, 441, 459, 460, 624.
he is, who intended to be though baptized outside, 413.
denial of remission to Donatist baptism, 19.
some things not Catholic within the Church, 508.
traditors, 500, 506, 527, 532, 535, 538, 541, 542, 547, 548, 552, 563, 569, 574, 589, 591, 594, 599, 626.
persecutors, 527, 534, 535, 536, 537, 539, 541, 566, 568, 570, 571, 587.
ordination denied by Donatists, 538.
covetousness, 564, 587, 588, 646.
recognition of Donatist ordination, 648.
relation to Cyprian, 411, 436.
commendation of good in all outside and correction of differences, 420.
denial of baptism as Donatist property, 421.
Donatists deny to have baptism, 465, 525, 527.
restoration of errant by imposition of hands, 492.
dead through traditors, 525, 532, 533.
charges Donatist with schism only, 528.
is a betrayer and deceiver, 538.
is apostate and rejected, 539.
should imitate Saul, the persecutor, 541.
is defiled through traditors, 544, 589.
gives martyr baptism to the Donatists, 542.
baptism only an imitation, 547.
seeks conversion of Donatists, 554.
is a violator of God’s laws, 564, 565.
uses only the sword of the Spirit, 566, 567.
does not order the use of civil power, 585.
receives Donatists by fellowship, 595.
recognized Donatists from outset, 650.
Charity, as note of the Church, 417, 423, 424, 425, 426, 443, 444, 445, 452, 458, 481, 482, 499, 500, 511, 562, 569, 570.
as baptizing with the Spirit, 504.
significance of His life, 553.
(see under Baptism, Church, etc.)
Christian, regenerate yet sinful, 647.
recognizes what is good outside, 416, 446, 498, 504, 547.
alone possesses effects of baptism, 419, 420.
characters illustrating it, 421.
historical struggle between carnal and spiritual, 421.
admits rebaptized after penance, 434.
commixture, 417, 448, 452, 455, 456, 477, 485, 490, 492, 511, 546, 555, 570, 598, 627.
bad outside of, and bad inside distinguished, 451–455, 460.
the great house, 455, 511, 512.
wicked, although members, have no part in, 458.
true membership figuratively set forth, 477, 490, 493, 502, 503, 509, 511.
contamination theory, 500, 501, 506, 513, 514, 543, 544, 550, 551, 555, 556, 614, 615.
built on the rock, 507, 508, 595:
owner of all property, 564, 644.
purification of, gradual, 647.
dispenser of justification by Christ, 647.
(See under Baptism, Catholic Charity, Peace, Toleration, Unity, Universality.)
Circumcelliones, 528, 537, 540, 541, 555, 559, 565, 570, 573, 574, 575, 576, 580, 582, 586, 633, 637, 638, 639, 640, 643, 648.
Cirta (see Constantina), 519, 626.
relation to sacraments, 625, 626.
Conference, of Carthage, 488, 635, 644, 647.
Conscience, freedom of, 572, 573, 574.
Constantina (see Cirta), 487, 520, 527, 588, 615, 627.
Constantine, emperor, 440, 487, 580, 581, 582, 587, 608, 635.
Constantius, emperor, 579, 582.
Cornelius, the centurion, 416, 460, 484, 541.
vindicated, 526, 571–575, 583, 584, 635 sqq., 639, 640.
Scripture proofs, 636, 637, 642.
difference of view among Catholics at first, 642, 643.
intended to restrain violent Donatists, 643.
without capital punishment, 643.
duty of, for salvation, 645, 646.
seeks to bring back those who have stamp of King, 648.
Arles, 431, 432, 442, 580, 636.
of Bagai, 412, 415, 430, 432, 433, 437, 523, 524, 525, 526, 532, 538, 557, 561, 613, 615, 650.
of Carthage, Agrippinus, Cyprian, etc., 425, 426, 427, 429, 431, 432, 436, 437, 438, 450, 460, 478, 479, 481, 499, 506, 612, 643.
Constantinople, 5th oecum., 634.
Nice, 423, 427, 430, 431, 432, 436, 439, 440, 449, 450, 465, 471, 472, 474, 479, 480, 483, 496, 505, 507, 513.
Crispinus, bp. of Calama, 573, 588.
Cyprian, bp. of Carthage, 411, 423, 424, 425, 426, 427, 428, 429, 430, 431, 432, 434, 436, 437, 438, 439, 440, 443, 444, 445, 446, 447, 448, 449, 450, 451, 452, 454, 455, 456, 458, 459, 463, 464, 465, 468, 471, 472, 473, 474, 475, 476, 477, 478, 479, 480, 481, 483, 484, 485, 487, 489, 491, 492, 495, 496, 497, 498, 499, 500, 501, 502, 503, 504, 505, 506, 507, 508, 511, 512, 513, 514.
Cyprian, bp. of Chubursicubur, 613.
Daniel, 447, 555, 577, 584, 585, 593, 635, 640.
David, 548, 558, 560, 591, 612, 645, 649.
Demetrius, bp. of Lesser Leptis, 497.
Digest of acts of the conference, 635.
Diocletian, emperor, 578, 581.
Discipline, necessity of, 598, 599.
appeal to Cyprian, 411, 427, 428, 432.
points of agreement and disagreement with Catholics, 412.
guilty of schism and separation, 413, 414, 500, 520, 527, 534, 538, 545, 548, 568, 583, 586, 588, 628.
can confer baptism but not rightly, 414.
refuted by receiving Maximianists, 415, 433, 437, 529, 615, 650.
claims to be the Catholic Church, 418, 556, 557, 563, 564.
claim power of remission, 418.
wrong to condemn unknown sins, 421.
theory of the perishing of the church, 428, 429, 430, 463.
no communion with apostolic churches, 428, 530, 561.
no ground for separation, 429.
their self-will, 429, 430, 432.
rebaptism refuted by recognizing Maximianist baptism, 430, 465, 466, 523, 524.
contamination theory refuted, 432, 437, 513, 514.
theory of purism, 437, 524, 527, 530, 531, 538, 555, 556, 558, 559, 589, 592, 593, 594, 647.
appeal to the state, 437, 563, 573, 579, 643.
traditor charge unproved, 437, 524, 534, 535.
cause vacated by non-rebaptism of returning heretics, 463.
leaders written to by Augustin, 519.
are persecutors, 523, 525, 528, 537, 538, 540, 541, 562, 563, 575, 576, 635, 640, 642, 643, 644.
charge that Catholics are dead refuted by Maximianist return, 525, 532.
not in communion with universal church, 526, 562.
conceal their books from Catholics, 526.
are slanderers, 527, 536, 548, 589, 635.
as martyrs, 533, 534, 543, 560, 567, 575, 576, 577, 637, 638, 645.
deny Catholic ordination, 538.
are limited in numbers and place, 538, 555, 557, 558.
recognize baptism as given by Optatus, 546.
require absolute purity of priesthood, 547, 593, 594.
protest against Catholic seeking, 554.
contemn Catholic baptism as Judas’s baptism, 557.
views of Catholic priesthood, 560.
condemn all nations unjustly, 566.
profess to love the Catholics, 569.
claim to be followers of the persecuted Apostle, 569.
violate parables, 570, 597, 598.
accuse world of being the tares, 577.
complain falsely about persecution, 585.
charged with covetousness, 588.
ready to listen to slanders, 602.
as to belief in the Trinity, 633.
history of their schism, 634, 635.
reject the baptism of apostolic churches, 639.
receive wholesome compulsion, 642.
Donatus, bp. of Carthage, 411, 413, 414, 415, 416, 417, 425, 428, 432, 433, 436, 500, 521, 524, 526, 528, 536, 537, 538, 541, 555, 563, 567, 570, 574, 587, 588, 595, 596, 598, 600, 602, 608, 622, 623, 625, 633, 634, 638, 639, 646, 650.
Donatus, bp. of Casæ Nigræ, 650.
Envy, Cyprian’s treatise, 451, 452.
Eugenius, bp. of Ammedera, 496.
Faustus, bp. of Timida Regia, 505.
Felicianus, bp. of Musti, 412, 415, 433, 466, 523, 525, 532, 561, 573, 615.
(See Remission of Sins under Baptism.)
Fortunatus, Catholic bp. of Constantina, 520.
Gildo, 433, 523, 543, 546, 550, 554, 573, 583, 589.
Gyrnmarcelli (see Marcellianus).
Hearers (among Manichæans), 604.
has none of the notes of the Church, 493.
in relation to forgiveness, 501.
no power to loose or bind, 503.
has baptism but to destruction, 509.
Hippo Diarrhytus (Hippozaritus), 508.
Hippozaritus (see Hippo Diarrhytus)
Holiness, relation to innocence, 559, 560.
received only in the Church, 442, 443, 475, 548, 650.
flees deceit, 475, 546, 610, 611, 613.
sin against, 564, 565, 633, 650, 651.
abandons water of the guilty, 589.
sign but not reality outside of the Church, 651.
Honoratus, bp. of Tucca, 439, 509.
Honorius, bp. of Milevis, 615.
Hortensianus, bp. of Lares, 492.
Iambus, bp. of Germaniciana, 502.
Imposition of hands, Holy Spirit given by, 442.
James, head of the church at Jerusalem, 561.
John, 419, 473, 483, 488, 509, 510, 547, 593, 594, 612.
as head of the church at Ephesus, 561.
the Baptist, 461, 469, 470, 530, 542, 549, 550, 553, 578, 610, 612, 613, 626.
John’s baptism, 461, 462, 463, 468, 469, 470, 626.
repeated by Apostles, 551, 552.
different from Christ’s, 553, 554.
Jubaianus, 426, 432, 434, 436, 437, 438, 439, 440, 444, 446, 447, 462, 463, 481, 482, 487, 510, 511.
Judas, the betrayer, 422, 466, 506, 533, 535, 539, 542, 543, 556, 557, 559, 560, 593, 613.
Julian, emperor, 573, 580, 581, 582, 587.
Julianus, bp. of Telepte, 505.
Justification, obtained only in the church, 647.
King, defender of the faith, 578.
as persecutor and corrector, 584, 585.
coerces as part of loyalty to Christ, 640.
Law, of God as known by Satan, 560.
Laws, imperial, 526, 559; 642, 646.
Libosus, bp, of Vaga, 439, 495.
consecration of water, 547, 548.
Lord’s prayer, 422, 561, 591, 647.
Macarius, 536, 555, 556, 558, 578, 580, 582, 583, 608.
Maccabees, 533, 534, 577, 580.
Manichæans, 528, 601, 604, 608.
Marcelliana (Gyrnmarcelli), 507.
Marcellus, bp. of Zama, 504, 505.
Marcus, bp. of Mactaris, 499, 500.
Martyrdom, 458, 460, 543. (See under Baptism and Donatists.)
Mauritania Cæsariensis, 426, 472, 484, 488, 497, 501, 503, 506, 507, 572, 573.
Maximianists, 412, 415, 430, 432, 433, 437, 465, 513, 523, 524, 525, 526, 528, 529, 532, 538, 540, 542, 557, 558, 563, 564, 573, 613, 615, 639, 650.
Maximianus, 412, 415, 430, 432, 433, 523, 525, 532, 538, 557, 558, 563, 564, 573, 613, 615, 639, 650.
Mileum (Milevis, Mileve), 488.
Musti, 433, 466, 523, 524, 525.
Nebuchadnezzar, 583, 584, 636, 640.
Nemesianus, bp. of Tubunæ, 484, 485.
Nicomedes, bp. of Segermi, 487.
Novatus, bp. of Thamugadis, 484.
Numidia, 426, 431, 433, 484, 486, 487, 488, 489, 492, 494, 496, 502, 504, 505, 507, 508, 509, 510, 524.
Optatus, a bishop of Augustin’s day, 635.
bp. of Thamugadis (Gildonianus), 433, 523, 524, 525, 528, 531, 543, 544, 545, 546, 550, 551, 554, 555, 557, 567, 573, 583, 589, 591, 616.
Paradise, 447, 490, 496, 501, 502, 536.
Paul, 418, 425, 426, 439, 441, 445, 450, 451, 452, 454, 455, 458, 459, 467, 469, 480, 483, 484, 497, 499, 503, 504, 505, 511, 521, 529, 530, 541, 547, 552, 554, 562, 563, 569, 581, 593, 598, 604, 609, 617, 619, 622, 623, 624, 625, 626, 641, 642, 644.
Peace as note of the church, 426, 444, 491, 538, 638.
Pelagianus, bp. of Luperciana, 502.
Persecution, suffering of, as note of the church:
done by the chaff in the church, 541.
a putting confidence is man, 586.
church should suffer not inflict, 636.
apostles did not inflict, 640.
opposed to liberty of belief, 641.
(See under Catholic Church, Correction, Donatist.)
Peter, 425, 426, 427, 434, 439, 443, 447, 450, 454, 460, 480, 499, 505, 540, 556, 576, 587, 613, 641, 649.
Peter, bp. of Diarrhytus, 508.
Petilian, bp. of Cirta, 519, 520, 530, 539, 545, 556, 593, 595, 596, 604, 614, 621.
Pharisees, 454, 561, 563, 568.
Polycarp, bp. of Adrumetum, 484.
Pompeius, 463, 474. 475, 482, 504.
Pomponius, bp. of Dionysiana, 503.
Praetextatus, bp. of Musti, 412, 433, 466, 523, 525, 615.
righteousness as well as office necessary, 547.
apostolic superior to episcopal, 426.
Primian, 412, 416, 433, 466, 523, 524, 525, 541, 613.
Privatianus, bp. of Sufetula, 491, 492.
Pudentianus, bp. of Cuiculi, 508.
Pusillus, bp. of Lamasba, 508.
Quintus, 425, 463, 472, 474, 482.
impious to rebaptize those in unity, 412, 464.
catholics oppose in every case, 412, 413, 419.
esblishediAfrica by councils and by influence of Agrippinus and Cyprian, 423, 425, 426, 429, 431, 440, 450, 466, 479, 483 sqq.
plenary council (Nice) opposes, 427, 430, 431, 449, 465, 479, 480, 483, 497, 505, 507.
Maximianists received without, 430, 433, 526, 613, 615.
Cyprian’s mistake (see Cyprian), 430, 431.
opposed by custom and tradition, 431, 436, 438 sqq., 449, 450, 465, 472, 475, 479, 483, 495, 500, 506.
fate of those who returned to the church but were not rebaptized, 438, 464.
catholics, falling into heresy, and returning, were not rebaptized, 440, 487, 507.
Novatian rebaptized Catholics, 440.
relation to imposition of hands, 444.
as to the bad within and the bad without, 449, 450, 473, 488, 489; 493, 494, 502–510, 513.
disliked, by schismatics themselves, 465.
to be denied even to those deserving it, 465.
argument for, from rebaptism of John’s disciples, 468, 470.
only for heretics outside who return, 487.
necessary, because heretics do not possess and cannot give the Holy Ghost, 489.
question between truth and custom, 495, 496, 509.
based on character of ministrant, 494, 531.
on the ground of the one water, 496, 497.
on bases of unity of God and the Church, 497, 502, 503, 507, 508.
necessary, because heretics are worse than heathen, 497, 498.
relation to non-fellowship, 502, 504, 509, 510.
necessary, that heretics may not do unlawful things, 504.
relation to doctrine, 504, 507.
rite and grace to be distinguished 508.
necessary, that heretics may not condemn the church at the judgment, 509.
the way to true communion, 510.
relation to origin, root and head, 521, 531.
is sin against baptism as Christ’s, 546, 595.
Circumcelliones are not subjected to, 568.
Remission of sins, (see under Baptism, and Rebaptism).
Rogatus, bp. of Cartenna, 572.
Rusiccade (Rusicadia), 507, 626.
not man’s but Christ’s, 439, 454.
fruit of, not outside of the Church, 443, 615, 616.
celebrant does not affect recipient of, 455.
of Old and New Testament, 552, 553.
Salvianus, bp. of Gazaufala, 509.
Satius (Sattius) bp, of Sicilibba, 501.
Scripture warnings against, 418.
Scripture persons illustrating, 418.
is hatred of the brethren, 419.
the evil in the Church, belongs to, 422.
severe punishment of, 417, 429, 444.
compared to adultery, 445, 446.
Scripture, misquoted by Donatists, 564, 565.
Secundianus, bp. of Thambei, 509.
Secundinus, bp. of Carpis, 493.
Sedatus, bp. of Turburbo, 490.
Simon Magus, baptism of, 417, 418, 419, 422, 443, 453, 460, 485, 527, 532, 541, 558, 590, 612, 616.
Stephen, bp. of Rome, 411, 474, 475, 476, 487, 504.
Successus, bp. of Abbir Germaniciana, 489, 490.
Tenax, bp. of Horrea Celiæ, 507.
Thamogade (Thamugadis), 433, 484.
Thambei (Thambi, Satambei), 509.
Theogenes, bp, of Hippo Regius, 488.
The Three Children, 584, 585, 636.
Thuccabori (Tucca Terebrinthina), 489.
Toleration, as a note of the Church, 426, 428, 432, 437, 471, 482, 489, 502, 503, 504, 505, 507, 510, 513, 525, 569, 598.
Tradition, value of apostolic, 430.
Traditor (see under Catholic and Donatists), 500, 501, 506, 599.
Trajan, emperor, 484, 578, 581.
Trinity (see formula of, under Baptism), 495, 550.
Tucca (Thucca), 439, 502, 509.
Unity as a note of the Church:
doctrine of, 416, 528, 627, 646.
exemplified by Cyprian, 423, 424, 426, 428, 434, 436, 474, 480, 506.
exemplified by Stephen, bp. of Rome, 475.
would embrace the Donatists, 566.
no righteousness outside of, 648.
Universality as a note of the Church, 414, 506, 524, 527, 533, 534, 537, 538, 547, 548, 554, 555, 556, 557, 568, 574, 575, 583, 598, 599, 600, 622, 627, 628, 634, 635.
Venantius, bp. of Tinisa, 503.
Verulus, bp. of Rusiccade, 507.
Victoricus, bp. of Thabraca, 494.
Vincentius, bp. of Cartenna, 572.
Worship, is as character of worshipper, 561.
Zeugitana, 426, 483, 489, 490, 493, 494, 495, 502, 505, 506, 507, 508, 524.
Zosimus, bp. of Tharassa, 439, 505.