Chapter 44.—86. Secundianus of Thambei1872
| 1872 Thambei (Thambi, Satambei), was in ecclesiastical province of Byzacium.
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said: "We ought not to
deceive heretics by our too great forwardness, that not having been
baptized in the
Church of our
Lord Jesus Christ, and having therefore not received
remission of their
sins, they may not impute to us, when the day of
judgment comes, that we have been the cause of their not being
baptized, and not having obtained the indulgence of the
grace of
God. On which account, since there is one
Church and one
baptism, when they are
converted to us, let them
receive together with the
Church the
baptism also of the
Church."
1873
| 1873 Conc. Carth. sec. 80.
|
87. Nay, when they are transferred to the rock, and joined to the society of the Dove, let them receive the remission of their sins, which they could not have outside the rock and outside the Dove, whether they were openly without, like the heretics, or apparently within, like the abandoned Catholics; of whom, however, it is clear that they both have and confer baptism without remission of sins, when even from themselves it is received by men, who, being not
changed for the better, honor God with their lips, while their heart is far from Him.1874
Yet it is true that there is one
baptism, just as there is one Dove, though those who are not in the one communion of the Dove may yet have baptism in common.
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