Chapter 28.—53. Hortensianus of Lares1691
| 1691 Lares, in ecclesiastical province of Numidia. Hortensianus is very likely the same as the one in Cypr. Epp. lvii., lxx.
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said: "How many
baptisms there are, let those who uphold or
favor heretics determine. We assert one
baptism of the
Church, which we only know in the
Church. Or how can those
baptize any one in the name of
Christ whom
Christ Himself declares to be His
enemies?"
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| 1692 Conc. Carth. sec. 21.
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54. Giving answer to this man in a like tenor of words, we say: Let those who uphold or favor the unrighteous see to it: we recall to the Church when we can the one baptism which we know to be of the Church alone, wherever it be found. Or how can they baptize any one in the name of Christ whom Christ Himself declares to be His enemies? For He says to all the unrighteous, "I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity;"
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and yet, when they baptize, it is not themselves that baptize, but He of whom John says, "The same is He which baptizeth."
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