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• As to what pertains to the case of infants: You [Fidus] said that they ought not to be baptized within the second or third day after their birth, that the old law of circumcision must be taken into consideration, and that you did not think that one should be baptized and sanctified within the eighth day after his birth. In our council it seemed to us far otherwise. No one agreed to the course which you thought should be taken. Rather, we all judge that the mercy and grace of God ought to be denied to no man born

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  Taken, Men, Thinking

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• It is a persistent evil to persecute a man who belongs to the grace of God. It is a calamity without remedy to hate the happy.

  Cyprian

  Hate, Men, Evil

  "Treatise on Jealousy and Envy". Book by Cyprian, Ch.9,

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• Custom, though never so ancient, without truth, is but an old error.

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  Errors, Ancient, Truth Is

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• Our prayers and fastings are of less avail, unless they are aided by almsgiving.

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  Prayer, Fasting, Almsgiving

  Saint Cyprian, Roy J. Deferrari (2007). “Treatises (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 36)”, p.232, CUA Press

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• If, in the case of the worst sinners and those who formerly sinned much against God, when afterwards they believe, the remission of their sins is granted and no one is held back from baptism and grace, how much more, then, should an infant not be held back, who, having but recently been born, has done no sin, except that, born of the flesh according to Adam, he has contracted the contagion of that old death from his first being born. For this very reason does he [an infant] approach more easily to receive the remission of sins: because the sins forgiven him are not his own but those of another

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  Believe, Grace, Baptism

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• Whereas there can be but one Baptism, they think they can Baptize; they have abandoned the fountain of life, yet promise the life and grace of the waters of salvation. It is not cleansing which men find there, but soiling; their sins are not washed away, but only added to. That being "born again" does not bring forth sons to God but to the Devil. Born of a lie, they cannot inherit the things which Truth has promised; begotten by the faithless, they are deprived of the grace of faith.

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  Lying, Son, Men

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• Since the baptismal rebirth takes place only with the one Bride of Christ, where could he be born who is not a son of the Church?

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  Son, Church, Christ

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• The wretched bodies of the condemned shall simmer and blaze in those living fires.

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  Fire, Body, Hell

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• The spouse of Christ cannot be defiled; she is uncorrupted and chaste.

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  Christ, Spouse, Chaste

  Saint Cyprian (2010). “Treatises (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 36)”, p.100, CUA Press

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• Murder, considered a crime when people commit it singly, is transformed into a virtue when they do it en masse.

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  People, Violence, Murder

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• Baptism pertains to the Church alone.

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  Baptism, Church, Sacraments

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• None of us offers resistance when he is seized, or avenges himself for your unjust violence, although our people are numerous and plentiful...it is not lawful for us to hate, and so we please God more when we render no requital for injury...we repay your hatred with kindness.

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  Kindness, Hate, People

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• "If any man thirst, let him come and drink from the rivers of living water" (cf. John 7:38). Where shall he who thirsts come? To heretics where the fountain and river of water is in no way life-giving? Or to the Church, which is One?

  Cyprian

  Men, Cfs, Rivers

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• Knowing that there is one Baptism, we who hold the head and root of the One Church know for certain that to him who is outside the Church nothing is lawful.

  Cyprian

  Roots, Knowing, Baptism

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