Monnulus of Girba Said: "The Truth of Our Mother...
-- 28. Monnulus of Girba [1643] said: "The truth of our mother, the Catholic Church, hath continued, and still continues among us, brethren, especially in the threefold nature [1644] of baptism, as our Lord says, Go, baptize all nations in the name of th29. To this we answer, That all who are baptized with the baptism that is consecrated in the words of the gospel have the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Ghost in the sacrament alone; but that in heart and in life neither do those have them who live an abandoned and accursed life within.

Footnotes:

[1643] Girba, formerly Meninx (Lotophagitis), an island to the south-east of the Lesser Syrtis belonged to church province of Tripolis. For Bp. Monnulus, see Cypr. Ep. 57.

[1644] In baptismi trinitate. "Quia trina immersione expediebatur, in nomine Patris, Filii, et S. Spiritus."--Bishop Fell.

[1645] Matthew 28:19.

[1646] Erroris offectura. Other readings are "offensa" and "effectura."

[1647] Conc. Carth. sec. 10.

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