Answer to the Letters of Petilian, the Donatist.
Chapter 15.—16. Look at the states of Musti and Assura:
Chapter 10.—23. Petilianus said: Did the apostle persecute any one? or did Christ betray any one?
Chapter 71.—157. Petilianus said: To you the prophet says, ‘Peace, peace and where is there peace?’
Chapter 2.—4. Petilianus said: "Those who have polluted their souls with a guilty laver, under the name of baptism, reproach us with baptizing twice,—than whose obscenity, indeed, any kind of filth is more cleanly, seeing that through a perversion of cleanliness they have come to be made fouler by their washing."
5. Augustin answered: We are neither made fouler by our washing, nor cleaner by yours. But when the water of baptism is given to any one in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, it is neither ours nor yours, but His of whom it was said to John, "Upon whom thou shalt see the Spirit descending, and remaining on Him, the same is He which baptizeth with the Holy Ghost."49 John i. 33.