BOOK II.

In which Augustine proves that it is to no purpose

that the Donatists bring forward the authority of

Cyprian, bishop and martyr, since it is really more

opposed to them than to the Catholics. For that he

held that the view of his predecessor Agrippinus, on

the subject of baptizing heretics in the Catholic

Church when they join its communion, should only be

received on condition that peace should be maintained

with those who entertained the opposite view, and that

the unity of the Church should never be broken by any

kind of schism, 31

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