Chapter 11.—16. Novatus of Thamugadis1608
| 1608 Thamugadis (Thamogade), a town in Numidia, on the east side of Mount Aurasius. The whole opinion of Novatus (Conc. Carth. sec. 4), is omitted in the Mss.
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said: "Though we know that all Scripture gives its
testimony respecting
saving baptism, yet we ought to express our belief that
heretics and schismatics, coming to the
Church with the semblance of having been
baptized, ought to be
baptized in the unfailing
fountain; and that therefore, according to the
testimony of the Scriptures, and according to the
decree of those most holy men, our colleagues,
1609
| 1609 The words in Cyprian are, "secundum decretum collegarum nostrorum sanctissimæ memoriæ virorum." The decree referred to is one of the Council held by Agrippinus.
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all schismatics and
heretics who are
converted to the
Church ought to be baptized; and that, moreover, all that seemed to have received ordination should be admitted as simple laymen."
17. Novatus of Thamugadis has stated what he has done, but he has brought forward no proofs by which to show that he ought to have acted as he did. For he has made mention of the testimony of the Scriptures, and the decree of his colleagues, but he has not adduced out of them anything which we could consider.
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