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according is your judgment and to the generat advice of ali of us as it has been decidod besoro. But ii anybodyrefusing to repent and to mine satisfaction to God, shallfeld to tho pisty of Felicissimus and his satellites, and shali join himself to the herotical faction, tot him know that
he cannot asterWards return to the church and communicate
in continuat prayer that the mercy of God may be ent Med.
TO CORNELIUS, ON HIS REFUSAL TO RECENENOVATI 'S ORDINATION. ARGUMENT.- The messensera seni v Novaticin to intimate his ordination to the ehurch of Carthage are rejected by Cyprian. 1. Cyprian to Cornelius, his brother, meeting. There havo come to us, beloved brother, sent by Novalian, Maximus the presbyter, and Augendus the deacon, and a certain Machaeus and Longinus. But, as We discovered, as meli from the letters whicli thoy brought with them, as from their discourae and declaration, that Novatian had been mado bishop; disturbed by the wichedness of an unlawful ordination made in opposition to the catholic church, me considered at once that theymust be restrained hom communion Mith us; and having, in
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1122 NE EPISTLES OF CYPRLAM the meanWhile, resuted and repelled the things whieli theypertinaciousty and obstinately endeavo ed to assert, I and severat of my colleagues, who had come together in me, merea atting tho arrival of our colleagues Caldonius and Fortunatus, Whom me had lately sent to Fou as ambassadora, andio our selloW-bishops, who mere present at your ordination, in order that, When they came and reported the truth of the matter, the Wichedness of the adverse par might bequelled through them, by greater authoriu and manifestproos. But there came, in addition, Pompeius and Stephanus, our Colleagues, Who themselves also, by Way of instructing usthereon, put forWard manifest prooss and testimontes in consorini With their gravity and fiathsuiness, so that it was not even necessary that those Who had come as sent by Novatian should bo heard any further. Αnd when in our solemn assemblyy they bursi in With invidious abuse and turbulent clamour, demanding that the accusations, Which
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1. Cyprian to Cornelius his brother, Meeting. As Wassiling sor God's servandi, and especialty sor upright and peaceabie priesis, dearest brother, me recently sent our cotileagnes Caldonius and Fortunatus, that they might, not onlyby the persuasion Oi our lettera, but by their presence and the advico os ali os Du, strive and labour .ith an infirpo er to bring the members of the divided body into thennity of the catholic church, and associato them into thobond of Christian chari . But sinco the obstinato and inflexibis pertinaci of tho adverse party has not oesy rejected
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the bosom and tho embrace of ita root and Mother, but even, missi a discord spreading and reviving itfels Worse and worse, has appotnted a bishop for itself, and, contrary to the sacrament once delivered os the divine appotniment and of catholio uni , has made an adulterous and opposed head ouisido thochurch; having received your letters as meli as those of out colleagues, at the coming also os our colleagues Pompeius and Stephanus, good men and very dear to us, by whom alitheso things Were undoubtedly alleged and proved to us willi generat gladness,' in conformity with tho requirements althoof the sanctity and the truth of the divino tradition and ecclesiastical institution, me have directed our letters to you. Moreover, bringing these fame things under the notice of our severat colleagues throughout the province, me havo biddon also that our brethren, With letters from them, bodirected to Jou.
2. ΓΤhis has been doneJ, although our mind and intentionhad been atready plainly declared to the brethren, and to tho ole of the peopte in this place, When having received letters lately from both parties, me read your letters, and intimaledyour ordination to the episcopate, in the ears of every one. Moreover, remembering the common honour, and haring
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THE EPISTLES OF CYPRIAM115 and although they may not bo successsul in destroying and
ster grace unto the hevers.' ' Further, we inow what thoright courso ot conduci to pursue is, is, When such things are Written by the calumnious temerity oi some, me do not allo them to be read among us; and therefore, de est brother, When such letters came to me against you, even though theywere the letters of your c presbyter sitiing mith you,' as theybreasted a tone os religious simplicity, and did not echo with any barhings of curses and revilings, I ordered them to beread to the clero and the people. 3. But in destring letters from our colleagues, Who Were present at your ordination at that place, me did not formithe ancient usage, nor did me seek for any novel . For it Was suffcient sor you to announce yourseti by letters to have been made bishop, unless there had been a dissenting factionon the other fide, Who by their standerous and calumnious fabrications disturbed the minds and perplexed the hearis of our colleagues, as meli as os severat of the brethron. ΤΟ set this matrer at rest, We judged it necessary to obtain thence
siuing mith Du, as hin the true ring of religioua simpliciu in them. There is a varieu es readino.
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the strong and decided authori of our colleagues Who Wrotelo us; and they, declaring the testimony os their letters to befully deserved by your character, and lite, and teachinnhave deprived even your rivals, and those Who delicti either in novelty or evit, os every scrupte os doubi or of differenco; and, according to our advice Weighed in Mholesome reason, tho minti of tho brethren lossing about in this sea have sincerely and decidedly approved your pHesthood. For this, my brother, κε especialty both labour alter, and ought tota ur aster, in be caresul to maintain as much as we can the ity delivered by the Lord, and through His apostles in ustheir Successors, and, as far as in us lies, to gather into thechurch the dispersed and wandering sheep Whicli the wilfulfaction and heretical temptation of somo is separating homineir Mother; those only being teit ouiside, Who by their obstina and madness have persisted, and have been un-Willing to retum to us; who themselves mill have to give an account to the Lord of the dissension and separation madeis inem, and of the church that they have forsahen. 4. But, so far as pertains to the cause of certain presbytera here, and os Felicissimus, that you may know What hasbeen done here, our colleagues have sent Fou letters su scribed by their own hand, that you may learn, When youhavo heard the parties, from their letters What they havsthought and what they have pronounced. But you Will do iter, brother, is you Will also bid copios of tho letters whlehΙ had sent lately by our colleagues Caldonius and Fori natus to you, to bo read for the common satisfaction, WhichI had written concerning the fame Felicissimus and his pre bytery to the clero there, and also to the people, to be readio tho brethren there; declaring yοur ordination, and theco se of the wholo transaction, that so as Weli there as herotho brothoinood may bo informed os ali things by us. Mor over, I have here transmitted also copies of tho fame is Mettius the subdeacon, sent is me, and by Nicephorus theacolyte. I bid you, dearest brother, ever hearidy fare est.
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118THE EPISTLES OF CYPRIAM lettere, beloved, What honour I have ever observed in mymode os speising for your confession, and what love for thoassociared brotherhood ; belleve, I entreat you, and acquiesco in these my letters, Wherein I both write and with simpliciband fidelity constat for you, and for your doings, and Dr yοur
pralae. For it weighs me doum and saddens me, and the i tolerable gries of a smitten, almost prostrate, Spirit seiges me, whon I find that you there, contra in ecclesiasticat order, contrary to evangelicat iam contra to the unity of thocatholic institution, had consented that another bishop inouldbe made. That is What is neither right nor allowablo to bedone; that another church should bo sot up; that Christ's members should be torn afunder; that the ono mind and
What exhortations me can, rather to return to the church
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CORNELIUS, CONCERNING POLYCARP TM ADRUMETINE.ARGUΜENT. e Meuses himself in this lettersor istae had oe- eurreri in that, during the time that he was at Adrumetum, letters had been sent themee by the eteris of Polycam, notio Comelius, but to the Roman eleris, not instandissiauit premisus* Polyeam himsel had written ratare to Cornelius. It appeara tolerab0 plain stom the conteaetitself that this Gaa writim after the precering One3.1. Cyprian to Cornelius his brother, meeting. I havoread your letters, dearest brother, Which you sent by Primitivus our c presbyter, in Whicli I perceived that you mero annoyed that, Whereas letters from the Adrumetino colony in the name of Polyca Were directed to you, yet aster Lib ratis and I came to that place, letters began to be directed
thence to the presbyters and to the deacons.
to bellove, that it Was done from no leviu or contempl. Butwhen severat of our colleagues Who had assembled into ono placo had determined that, While our c bishops Caldonius and Fortunatus mere sent as ambassadors to you, ali thingsahould bo in tho meantime suspended as they mere, untii the Game colleagues os oura, having reduced mattera thero topeace, or, having discovered their truth, should return to us; the presbyters and deacons abiding in the Adrumetine colony, in the absence of our co-bishop Polycarp, mere ignorant of what had boen docided in common by us. But When me came betore them, and our purpose Was underatood, in themselves also began in observo what the others diri so that the agreement of the churches abiding there vas in no respect
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Wiso than is the truth. For me, Who furnish mery personwho satis henco With a plan stat they may sail Without myossence, know that we have exhorted them to achnowledmand hold the mot and womb of the catholic church. But since our province is Wid spread, and has Numidia and Mauritania attached in it; lest a schism made in the city should consum tho minia of the absent With uncertain opinions, me
tho most manifest and substantial approves; so that hom thorepties of our colleagues, who have thence Written to us, and hom the account and Dom tho testimontes of our c biinops
Ρompsius, and Stephanus, and Caldonius, and Fortunatus, both tho noedivi cause and the right order, and moreoverine glorious innocen , of your ordination might be known byall. That me, mith the rest of our colleagues, may steadilyand fimb administer this ossice, and heep it in the conco dant unanimity of the catholic chureh, the divino condescension mill accomptish ; so that tho Lord who condescentito elect and appotnt for Himself priesta in His Aureli, may proieci them alao When elected and appoinred by His mod-