Chapter 43.—84. Clarus of Mascula1869
| 1869 Mascula was in ecclesiastical province of Numidia.
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said: "The sentence of our
Lord Jesus Christ is manifest, when He sent forth His
apostles, and gave the
power which had been given Him of His
Father to them alone, whose successors we are, governing the
Church of the
Lord with the same
power, and
baptizing those who believe the
faith. And therefore
heretics, who, being without, have neither
power nor the
Church of
Christ, cannot
baptize any one with His
baptism."
1870
| 1870 Conc. Carth. Ibid. sec. 79.
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85. Are, then, ill-affectioned murderers successors of the apostles? Why, then, do they baptize? Is it because they are not outside? But they are outside the rock, to which the Lord gave the keys, and on which He said that He would build His Church.1871
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