The Lapsed (251 AD):
17
“The Lord alone is able to have mercy. He alone, who bore our sins, who grieved
for us, and whom God delivered up for our sins, is able to grant pardon for the sins
which have been committed against Him...Certainly we believe that the merits of
the martyrs and the works of the just will be of great avail with the Judge - but that
will be when the day of judgment comes, when, after the end of this age and of the
world, His people shall stand before the tribunal of Christ.”
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“I beseech you, brethren, let everyone who has sinned confess his sin while he is
still in this world, while his confession is still admissible, while satisfaction and
remission made through the priests are pleasing before the Lord.”
Letter to all His People (251 AD):
43, (40), 5
“There is one God and one Christ, and one Church, and one Chair founded on
Peter by the word of the Lord. It is not possible to set up another altar or for there
to be another priesthood besides that one altar and that one priesthood. Whoever
has gathered elsewhere is scattering.”
The Lord’s Prayer (C. 251-252 AD):
18
“As the prayer continues, we ask and say, ‘Give us this day our daily bread’...And
we ask that this bread be given to us daily, so that we who are in Christ and daily
receive the Eucharist as the food of salvation, may not, by falling into some more
grievous sin and then in abstaining from communicating, be withheld from the
heavenly Bread, and be separated from Christ’s Body...He Himself warns us,
saying, ‘Unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you shall
not have life in you.’ Therefore do we ask that our Bread, which is Christ, be given
to us daily, so that we who abide and live in Christ may not withdraw from His
sanctification and from His Body.”
Letters to Fidus (C. 251-252 AD):
64 (59), 5
“As to what pertains to the case of infants: you said that they ought not to be
baptized within the second or third day after their birth...,and that you did not think
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