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the hardoip, to associale thoso who have received certificates, with those Who have sacrificed, When he by Whom the certificate has been received may say, I had previousty read, and had beon mado aware by the discourse of the bishop, that me must not sacrifice to idols, that tho servant of Godought not to Worship images; and thereiore, in order that Imight not do this Whicli mas not la fui, when the opportunityos receiving a certificato was offered, which ilaeis also I should not have received, unless the opportuni had been put besoreme, I either ment or chamed some other person going tollis magistrate, to say that I am a Christian, that I am notallowed to sacrifice, that I cannot come in the devit's altare,
and that I pay a prico sor this purpose, that I may not do
dono this, and that although his hand is pure, and no con- taet of doadb sood has polluted his lips, yet his conscience
and is noW admonished of tho thing Wherein he has sinned, and having been deceived, not so much by guili as is error, bears witness that for another time he is instructed and prepared.
15. It wo reject the repentance of those Who have somo confidence in a conscienco that may be tolerated; at onco
ment, that we have not cared for the wοunded sheep, and that on account of a single Munded one me have lost many
inhumani . And What Will become, dearest brother, os
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neVer iram the fame men become aftemaria both confessoreand martyra.
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THE EPISTLES OF CYPRIAM 143 stili, Ming placed oulside the church, and divided hom unityand iram chari , he could not in his death be cromed. d there ore it was decided, dearest brother, the case of each individual having been examinod into, that the receiversos certificates should in tho meantime bo admitteri that those who had sacrifieod should bo assisted at deast, iam e themis no confession in the grave, nor can any one be constrainedis us to repentance, it the fruit os repentance be t en aWay.
consolation os pince and communion.
or falleth; ho inali stand, for God is ablo to make him stand. M Jota also proves that Jesus Christ tho Lord is our Advocate and Intercessor for our sins, saying, littis chilhen, these things Write I unto Fou, stat ye sin not. d ii any man sin, Me havo an Advocato Mith tho Father, Jesus Christ the Supportis: and Ho is tho propitiation forour sins. si And Paul also, the apostle, in his epistie, has
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20. And do not think, doarest brother, that either thoeourage of the brothren Will be lossened, or that martyrdomswili fail for this causo, that repontance is relaxed to th Iapsed, and that the liope of peaco is offered to the penitent. Tho strength of tho truly belloving remains unshahen; and with thoso who fear and love God With their Wholo heari, their integri continues steady and strong. For to adulterera even a time os repentance is granted by us, and peaesis given. Yet virgini ty is not therofore deficient in thechurch, nor does the glorious desim os continenco languishthrough the sins of others. The churcii, crowned with somany virgins, flourishes; and chastity and modesty preseos tho tenor of their glo . Nor is the vigour os continencobrohen down because repentance and pardon are facilitatedio the adulterer. It is ono thing to stand sor pardon, another
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and murage. It is one thing, tortured by long suffering forsins, to bo cle sed and long purged by fire ;y another to have purged ali sins by suffering. It is ono thing, in fine, to boin suspense illi the sentence of God at the dv of judment;
eensum; so that, because by some peace Was granted toadulterere, he who did not grant it should bo separated fromtho church. While tho bond of concord remains, and thoundivided sacrament of the catholio church endures, everybishop disposes and directa his oWn acis, and mill havo togio an account of his purposes to the Lota. 22. But I Wonder that somo are so obstinate M to thinhthat repentaneo is not to be granted to the lapsed, or tosupposo that pardon is to be dented to tho penitent, Whon itis written, Remember Whenco thou ari fallen, and repent,
prophetes' to leach and in seduco my servandi to commit
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In the Psalms, also, wo read as meli tho rebuke as thoclemen of God, threaten ing at the fame time as He Spares, punishing that He may correct; and when He has corrected, preserving. I Will visit,' ΗΟ says, their transgressions
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147 asterWards res med, and, the sins of his former lila being putaWay, restored to sobriely and morality and to the disciplino
os innocence by the sorrow of his repentance, both rejoices and givos thanks, and with the eugerness of a father's exultation, embraces the restored one, Whom besore he had cast out; ho much more does that one and true Father, good, mercisul, and lovin yea, Himself Goodness and Mercy and Lov-rejoice
in the repentance of His orin sonsi nor threatens punishment to those Who are noW repenting, or mourning and lamentinnbut rather promises pardon and clemen . Whenco tho Lordin tho Gospei calis those that mourn, blessed ; because he whomouras calis fortii mercy. Ho Who is stubborn and haughtyheaps up Wrath against himself, and the punishment of tho coming judgment. Αnd therefore, dearest brother, me have decidod that those Who do not repent, nor give evideuce of sorro for their sins vitii their Whole heari, and with manifestprofession os their lamentation, are to be absolutely restrainedirom tho hope os communion and peace ii they begin to bogior them in tho midst of sichness and perit; because it is notrepentanco sor sin, but the warning os urgent death, that
desues them to ask ; and he is not Worthy to receive consol tion in death who has not reflected that he was about to die. 24. In re reiace, hoWever, to the character os Novalian,
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sin no more, test a Worso thing happen unio thoe, tot him separate the fraudulent and adulterere from his fide and DomUS co any, since the case of an adulterer is is far both graver and Worae than that of one Who has inhen a certificate, because the lalter has sinned by necessity, the formeris freo Wili: tho lalter, thin hing that it is sufficient for him that he has not sacrificed, has been deceived by an error; thetormer, a violater of the matrimonial tie of another, or e tering a brothel, into the sink and fit thy gulf of the common opte, has beiouled by detestabie impurity a sanctified bodyand Gossis temple, M says the apostle: μ Every sin that a mandosth is Without tho body, but he that committetis fornicationsinneth against his own body. ' And yet to these persons themselves repentance is granted, and the hope of lamentingand aloning is leti, according to the saying of the samo apostle: I fear test, When I come to you, I shali bowallmany of those Who have sinned Hready, and have not r pented of the uncleanness, and sornication, and lasciviousnem Which they have committed. M27. Neister tot the new horetios flatior themselves in this, stat they say that they do not communicato with idolatere; although among them there are both adulterors and fraudulent persons, Who are held guilty of the crime of idolatry, according to the saring of the apostlo : For know this mitti understanding, that no Whοremonger, nor unelean peram, nor coVetous man, Whose gulit is that of idolat , hath any inheritance in the Lingdom of Christ and of God.' si And
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os God, whosoever violates the temple of God by adulternviolates God; and he who, in committing sins, does the Willos the devit, serves demons and idols. For evil doods do notcomo hom the Holy Spirit, but irom tho prompting of the
adversa , and lusis born of the unclean spirit constrain mento aci against God and to obey the devit. Thus it happens that is they say that one is polluted by anothees sin, and ifth contend, by their oWn asseveration, that the idolat of the delinquent passes over to one Who is not milty accordingto their own Word ; they cannot be excusod froin the crime ofidolatry, since from the apostolic proos it is ovident that thoadulterers and defraudors With Whom they communicate are idolatera. But With us, according to our faith and the givonrule os divine preaching, agrees the principie of truth, that overy ono is himself held fast in his own sin; nor can one be- como guitu for another, since the Lord foreWarns us, Suing, Tlis righteousness of the rightoous stiali be upon him, and tho Michodness of tho wichod shali bo upon him. y Andagain: Tho fathors shali not dio for the childron, and thochildron shali not die for tho sathors. Every ono shali dis in his own sin. ' Reading and observing this, me certainly thinhthat no one is to bo rostrained from tho fruit os satisfaction, and the liope of peace, since Wo know, according to the salthos tho divino Scriptures, God Himself being their author, and Oxhorting in them, both that sitiners are brought bachio repentance, and that pardon and mercy are not deniod to
deception of miserable and sensoless mournersi Oh, ineffectual and profitiess tradition of horetical institution l-to exhortio the repontance of atonement, and to talie aWay the lidaling