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[8457] [The formidable doctrine of 1 John iii. 9; v. 18, etc. must excuse our author for his severe adherence to this principle of purifying the heart from habitual sin. But, the church refused to press it against St. Matt. xviii. 22. In our own self-indulgent day, we are more prone, I fear, to presumption than to over strictness. The Roman casuists make attrition suffice, and so turn absolution into a mere sponge, and an encouragement to perpetual sinning and formal confession.]
[8458] i.e., favour.
[8459] Which is solemnly done in baptism.
[8460] Adglutinaris.
[8461] Acts xiv. 15-17: “licet” here may ="lawful,” “permissible,” “excusable.”
[8462] “Timent,” not “metuunt.” “Metus” is the word Tertullian has been using above for religious, reverential fear.
[8463] Timor.
[8465] i.e., by baptism.
[8466] Adulantur.
[8467] “Commeatus,” a military word ="furlough,” hence “holiday-time.”
[8468] i.e., repurchase.
[8469] Adulter; see de Idol. c. i.
[8470] i.e., in baptism.
[8473] Symbolum mortis indulget. Comp. Rom. vi. 3-4, 8; Col. ii. 12, 20.
[8475] i.e., in baptism.
[8476] See John 13.10; Matt. 23.26.
[8477] Metus integer.
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