Chapter 36.—69. Eucratius of Theni1725
| 1725 Theni was in ecclesiastical province of Byzacene. A Eucratius occurs in Cypr. Ep. ii.
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said: "Our
God and
Lord Jesus Christ, teaching the
apostles with His own mouth, fully laid down our
faith, and the
grace of
baptism, and the rule of the
law of the
Church, saying, ‘Go ye, and
teach all
nations,
baptizing them in the name of the
Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy
Ghost.’
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Therefore the false and
unrighteous baptism of
heretics is to be repudiated by us, and
contradicted with all solemnity of witness, seeing that from their mouth issues not
life, but
poison, not heavenly
grace, but blaspheming of the
Trinity. And so it is plain that
heretics coming to the
Church ought to be
baptized with
perfect and Catholic
baptism, that, being
purified from the blasphemy of their presumption, they may be reformed by the
grace of the
Holy Spirit."
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| 1727 Conc. Carth. sec. 29.
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70. Clearly, if the baptism is not consecrated in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, it should be considered to be of the heretics, and repudiated as unrighteous by us with all solemnity of witness; but if we discern this name in it, we do better to distinguish the words of the gospel from heretical error, and approve what is sound in them, correcting what is faulty.
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