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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1878 edition. Excerpt: ...converteret, multaque millia hominum baptismatis Sacramento abluisset. St. Bonifac. Mogunt. Archiepisc., Vita, cap. 12; Script. Eeelesiast., viii. Sobc. Migne. Parisiis, 18G3. Pope Gregory the Second, in a letter to the German clergy and laity commending Boniface, uses the same word to describe his baptism. Some persons, says he, who had no knowledge of God or of holy baptism, were washed1 in water --that is, bathed in water. Pope Zacharias, in a letter to Boniface showing the need of baptism and of invoking the Trinity in administering it, with special reference to the error of an Irish presbyter in Germany named Samson, who taught that a man might be made a Christian without the bath of regeneration and without the invocation of the Trinity, says: Whosoever has been washed without the invocation of the Trinity has not the sacrament of regeneration baptism, as it is assuredly true that if any one has been immersed in the baptismal fountain without the invocation of the Trinity, he has not been made perfect until he shall have been baptized in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.... Whosoever is immersed, the Trinity being invoked in gospel language after the rule laid down by the Lord, in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, has that sacrament without doubt.... But 1 Aliqufis vero, qui nee Dei cognitioncm habentes, nee baptismatis scri unda sunt loti. Ep. III., Gregor. Papa IT., Script. FccltHasl., viii. ssec. p. 501. Migne. Parisiis, 1863. about those who immerse in the fountain of baptism without the invocation of the Trinity, it is known to thy fraternity that the series of sacred rules contains something which we advise you to hold tenaciously: ' Be ye holy, as I also am holy.' '...

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