We Have to Prove It?

“There was nothing more cast up to the orthodox by the Novatians and Donatists, than that they were defective in this, in admitting to, and retaining in the ministry, men that were corrupt. Yet after many trials they were never able to prove what they alleged upon some eminent persons when it came to trial, even when such things were generally accounted true among them. This would be adverted, that every general rumor be not account a truth, especially in the times of division” (Durham, p. 336).