Nicene & Post-Nicene Fathers — Second Series Vol. 12 — Section 507
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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers Second Series Vol. 12
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Question XVIII. Concerning those who have come from Africa or Mauretania and know not in what sect they were baptized, what ought to be done in their case [633] ? Reply. These persons are not doubtful of their baptism, but profess ignorance as to the faith of those who baptized them: and hence since they have received the form of baptism in some way or other, they are not to be baptized but are to be united to the catholics by imposition of hands, after the invocation of the Holy Spirit's power, which they could not receive from heretics. Question XIX. Concerning those who after being…
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