Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: Series I/Volume IV/Donatist Controversy/Answer to the Letters of Petilian, the Donatist/Book II/Chapter 25

58. &#160; said:&#160; "For when you in your guilt perform what is false, I do not celebrate baptism twice, which you have never celebrated once."

59.&#160; answered:&#160; In the first place, you do not convict us of guilt.&#160; And if a guilty man baptizes with a false baptism, then none of those have true baptism who are baptized by men in your party, that are, I do not say openly, but even secretly guilty.&#160; For if he who gives baptism gives something that is God&#8217;s, if he is already guilty in the sight of God, how can he be giving something that is God&#8217;s if a guilty man cannot give true baptism?&#160; But in reality you wait till he is guilty in your sight as well, as though what he proposes to confer were something that belonged to you.