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-E EPISTLES OF CYPRIAM161governing the church; nor can me continue any longe or in faet noW be Christians, is it is como to this, that Wo ore to be asraid of the threata or the snares of outcasis. Forboth Gentilos and Jows threaten, and heretios and ali those, of whoso hearis and minda tho devii has taen possession, datly attest their Venomous madnoM With furious Volce. Woare not, thereiare, to yield because they threaten; nor is tho adversary and enemy on that account greater than Christ, because he claims for himself and assumes so much in themorid. There ought to abide With us, dearest brother, an immoveabie strength of faith; and against ali the irruptions and onseis of the wmes that roar against us, a steady andranshahen courago fhould plant iraelf as With tho sortitudo and
mass of a resisting roch. Nor does it matter Whence comesthe terror or the danger to a bishop, who lives subject toterrors and dangere, and is nevertheless made glorious isthose Very terrors and dangers. For me ought not to considerand regard the mere threats of the Gentiles or of tho JEWh
Abel, and an angry brother pursved the fleeing Jacob, and the youthsul Joseph was sold by the aet of his brethren. In
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Woria, and their villantes. 3. But, dearest brother, ecclesiastical disciplino is not onstat account in be torsisen, nor priestly censum to be r laxed, because me are disturbed mith reproaches or ars ahahennith terrors; since holy Scripture meeis and warns us,
trayed ; and whether he has Christ in his heari, or Antichris is discernod in his speahing, according in What tho Lord saysin His Gospei, o generation of Vipers, hoW can Π, being
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THE EPISTLES OF CYPRIAN. 163 erit, speis mod things' sor out of the abundance of the
received a bullet hom a servant of the priest, and the servant
λ Mau. xii. 34, 35. η 1 Cor. Vi. 10.3 Deut. xvii. 12, 13. si 1 Sam. viii. 7. 7 Hau. viii. 4. η Jota xviii. 22.3 Matti V. 22. . Luri T. 16.
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ch ch-such as are made contrary to the ordinance and
ali his colleagues, approved to his peoplo by noW sour years' experience in his episcopale ; observant os disciplino in timoes peace; in time os disturbance, proscribed mitti the namo of his episcopato applied and attached to him; so ostenas d for in the circus μ sor the lions in the amphitheatre, honoured mitti the testimony of the divine condescension; even in these very dus On Whicli I have writton this lottoris Τοu, on account of the sacrifices Whicli, by proclaimededici, the peopte mere commanded to celebrate, demandedaneW in the circus μsor the lions' by the clamour of thopopulaee;-When suta an one, dearest brother, is seen to boassailed by some desperato and rechlem men, and by thoso Who have their place ouuido the Aureli, it is manifest Whoassails him: not assuredly Christ, Who either appotrita or
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protecta his prissis; but he who, as sto adversary os Christand tho Me in His chureli, for this purpose persecutes With his malico the rutor of the chureli, that when the pilos is
remoVed, he may rage more atroclousty and more violently With a vioW to the church's dispersion.
commanda of the apostle who foreWarns us; is in the last days certain persons, proud, contumacious, and enemies of
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repent and to return to the church, that we Who are anxio
ment, and that they alone Ahould remain in punishment Whomfused to be healed by the whol omeneas of our advice. Nor ought the reproaches of the lost to move us in any degreo to depart smm the right path and from the sum rute, sineε also the apostle instructa us, saying, Ii I should plerasmen, I should not bo the servant of Christ. ' Thero is agreat difference Whether one destres in deservo meli of monor of God. Is me seeh to pleam men, the Lota is offended. But is Wo strius and labour that we may please God, WBought to contemn human reproaches and abuse.
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brother Felicianus is either retarded there by the wind, or is delained by receiving other letters from us, he has been forestialed by Felicissimus hastening to you. For thus Wichedness alWays hastens, as ii by iis speed it could prevat.
10. But I intimated to you, my brother, is Felicianus,
that there had como to Carthage, Privatus, an old heretio in the colony of Lambesa, many years ago condemned DP
many and grave crimes by the judgment of ninely bishops,
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and severely remarhed upon in tho letters of Fabian and Donatus, also our predecessors, as is not hidden from your
in heresy. But Jovinus also, and Maximus, mere present ascompanions mitti the proved heretic, condemned sor wichod sacrifices and crimes proved against them by the judgmentos nine bishops, our colleagues, and again eXcommunicaledalso by many of us last year in a councit. And Mili theso four Was also joined Repostus of Suturnica, Who not onlyfell himself in the persecution, but cast doWn by sacrilegious Persuasion the greatest part of his people. These sive, Witha D. who sither had sacrificed, or had evit consciences, Concurrod in destring Fortunatus as a falso bishop sor them-Selves, that so, their crimes agreeing, tho ruler should bo such
11. Ηence also, dearest brother, you may no know thoother falsehoods which desperate and abandoned men havothere spread about, that although, of the sacrificere, or of thoheretics, thera mere not more than sve falso bishops whocame to Carthage, and appotnted Fortunatus as the associat
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THE EPISTLES OF CYPRIAN.knon that lies do not long deceive, that the night only lasisso long as untii tho day brightens; but that whon tho du iselear and the sun has arisen, the daaness and gloom ove placo to light, and the robberies Whicli mere going on throughtho night cerae. In fine, is you mero is seeh the names Domthem, they Would have nono Which they could even falselygive. For such among them is the penury even of Wichedmen, that neither os sacrificera nor of heretica ean thero boeollected twenty-five for them; and yet, for the sise of deceiving the ears of the simple and the absent, the numberis exaggerated by a lie, as is, even ii this number meretrue, either the church Would bo overcome by heretim, orrighteousness by the unrighteouS. 12. Nor does it bEhovo me, dearest brother, to do lihethings to them, and to go throuo in my disco se in ethings Which they have committed, and stili commit, since