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| Of Those Who Promise This Indulgence Not to All, But Only to Those Who Have Been Baptized as Catholics, Though Afterwards They Have Broken Out into Many Crimes and Heresies.
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Chapter 20.—Of Those Who Promise
This Indulgence Not to All, But Only to Those Who Have Been
Baptized as Catholics, Though Afterwards They Have Broken Out into
Many Crimes and Heresies.
There are others still who make
this promise not even to all who have received the sacraments of
the baptism of Christ and of His body, but only to the catholics,
however badly they have lived. For these have eaten the body of
Christ, not only sacramentally but really, being incorporated in
His body, as the apostle says, “We, being many, are one bread,
one body;”1534
so that,
though they have afterwards lapsed into some heresy, or even into
heathenism and idolatry, yet by virtue of this one thing, that they
have received the baptism of Christ, and eaten the body of Christ,
in the body of Christ, that is to say, in the catholic Church, they
shall not die eternally, but at one time or other obtain eternal
life; and all that wickedness of theirs shall not avail to make
their punishment
eternal, but only
proportionately long and severe.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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