The Correction of the Donatists.

 St. AUGUSTIN:

 A Treatise

 Chapter 1.—1. I must express my satisfaction, and congratulations, and admiration, my son Boniface, in that, amid all the cares of wars and arms, you

 Chapter 2.—6. I would add, moreover, that they themselves, by making it the subject of an accusation, referred the case of Cæcilianus to the decision

 Chapter 3.—12. But those who are unacquainted with their habits think that they only kill themselves now that all the mass of the people are freed fro

 Chapter 4.—15. And indeed, before those laws were put in force by the emperors of the Catholic faith, the doctrine of the peace and unity of Christ wa

 Chapter 5.—19. But as to the argument of those men who are unwilling that their impious deeds should be checked by the enactment of righteous laws, wh

 Chapter 6.—21. It is indeed better (as no one ever could deny) that men should be led to worship God by teaching, than that they should be driven to i

 Chapter 7.—25. However, before those laws were sent into Africa by which men are compelled to come in to the sacred Supper, it seemed to certain of th

 Chapter 8.—32. But they, as we have sometimes said before in other places, do not charge themselves with what they do to us while, on the other hand,

 Chapter 9.—35. As to the charge that they bring against us, that we covet and plunder their possessions, I would that they would become Catholics, and

 Chapter 10.—43. But this, they say, is the very thing which disquiets us,—If we are unrighteous, wherefore do you seek our company? To which question

 Chapter 11.—48. But as to what they say, arguing as follows: If we have sinned against the Holy Ghost, in that we have treated your baptism with conte

St. AUGUSTIN:

a treatise concerning

the correction of the donatists

[de correctione donatistarum, liber seu epistola clxxxv.]

circa A.D. 417.

translated by

rev. j. r. king, m.a.,

vicar of st. peter’s in the east, oxford; and late fellow and tutor of merton college, oxford.