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AND so, you wretched, insane, obstinate creature, you see that you have
utterly upset the whole faith of the Creed, and all that is valuable in our
hope and the mysteries. And yet you still dare to remain in the Church: and
imagine that you are a priest, though you have denied everything by which
you came to be a priest. Return then to the right way, and recover your
former mind, return to your senses if you ever had any. Come to your self,
if there ever was in you a self to which you can come back. Acknowledge the
sacraments of your salvation, by which you were initiated and regenerated.
They are of no less use to you now than they were then; for they can now
regenerate you by penance, as they then gave you birth through the Font.
Hold fast the full scheme of the Creed. Hold the entire truth of the faith.
Believe in God the Father: believe in God the Son: in one who begat and one
who was begotten, the Lord of all, Jesus Christ; Being of one substance
with the Father; Begotten in His divinity; born in the flesh: of twofold
birth, yet of but one glory; who Himself creator of all things, was
begotten of the Father, and was afterwards born of the Virgin.
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