Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: Series I/Volume IV/Donatist Controversy/On Baptism/Book VI/Chapter 28

53.&#160; Hortensianus of Lares said:&#160; "How many baptisms there are, let those who uphold or favor heretics determine.&#160; We assert one baptism of the Church, which we only know in the Church.&#160; Or how can those baptize any one in the name of Christ whom Christ Himself declares to be His enemies?"

54.&#160; Giving answer to this man in a like tenor of words, we say:&#160; Let those who uphold or favor the unrighteous see to it:&#160; we recall to the Church when we can the one baptism which we know to be of the Church alone, wherever it be found.&#160; Or how can they baptize any one in the name of Christ whom Christ Himself declares to be His enemies?&#160; For He says to all the unrighteous, "I never knew you:&#160; depart from me, ye that work iniquity;" and yet, when they baptize, it is not themselves that baptize, but He of whom John says, "The same is He which baptizeth."