Chapter 18.—30. Secundinus of Cedias1648
| 1648 Cedias (Cedia) has been identified, but without sufficient reason, with Quidias, or Quiza, in Mauritania Cæsariensis for both places have bishops at the Collation of 411. A Bp. Secundinus is mentioned in Cypr. Epp. lvii., lxvii., but whether these refer to him of Cedias or him of Carpos (ch. 31) cannot be decided.
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said: "Since our
Lord Christ said, ‘He that is not with me is against me,’
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and the
Apostle John declares those who go out from the
Church to be
antichrists,
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without all doubt the
enemies of
Christ, and those who are called
antichrists, cannot
minister the
grace of the
baptism which gives
salvation; and therefore my
judgment is that those who take
refuge in the
Church from the
snares of
heresy should be
baptized by us, who of His condescension are called the
friends of
God."
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| 1651 Conc. Carth. sec. 11.
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31. The answer to which is, That all are the opponents of Christ, to whom, on their saying, "Lord, have we not in Thy name done many wonderful things?" with all the rest that is there recorded, He shall at the last day answer, "I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity,"1652
—all which
kind of
chaff is destined for the
fire, if it persevere to the last in its
wickedness, whether any part of it
fly outside before its winnowing, or whether it seem to be within. If, therefore, those
heretics who come to the
Church are to be again
baptized, that they may be
baptized by the
friends of
God, are those covetous men, those robbers, murderers, the friends of God, or must those whom they have baptized be baptized afresh?
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