-- 5. But I think that we have sufficiently shown, both from the canon of Scripture, and from the letters of Cyprian himself, that bad men, while by no means converted to a better mind, can have, and confer, and receive baptism, of whom it is most clear t

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Footnotes:

[1588] Cant. vi. 8, 9.

[1589] Ephesians 5:27; Cp. Aug. Retract. ii. 18.

[1590] Cant. iv. 12, 13.

[1591] John 20:23.