Chapter 17.—28. Monnulus of Girba1643
| 1643 Girba, formerly Meninx (Lotophagitis), an island to the south-east of the Lesser Syrtis belonged to church province of Tripolis. For Bp. Monnulus, see Cypr. Ep. lvii.
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said: "The
truth of our mother, the Catholic
Church, hath continued, and still continues among us,
brethren, especially in the threefold
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| 1644 In baptismi trinitate. "Quia trina immersione expediebatur, in nomine Patris, Filii, et S. Spiritus."—Bishop Fell.
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of
baptism, as our
Lord says, ‘Go,
baptize all
nations in the name of the
Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy
Ghost.’
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Since, therefore," he goes on to say, "we know clearly that
heretics have neither
Father, Son, nor Holy
Ghost, they ought, on coming to our mother, the
Church, to be truly regenerated and
baptized, that the cancer which they had, and the
wrath of condemnation, and the destructive energy of error
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| 1646 Erroris offectura. Other readings are "offensa" and "effectura."
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may be sanctified by the holy and heavenly laver."
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| 1647 Conc. Carth. sec. 10.
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29. To this we answer, That all who are baptized with the baptism that is consecrated in the words of the gospel have the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Ghost in the sacrament alone; but that in heart and in life neither do those have them who live an abandoned and accursed life within.
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