In Latin:

Nam quicunque, etiam non percepto Regenerationis lavacro, pro Christi confessione moriuntur, tantum eis valet ad dimittenda peccata, quantum si abluerentur sacro fonte Baptismatis.

Faber also quotes Augustine, in same Chapter, page 202, as follows:

No man becomes a Member of Christ, except either by baptism, in Christ, or by death for Christ. Whence also that thief, not a follower of the Lord before his crucifixion, but a confessor in the crucifixion (from whom, sometimes, prejudication against the Sacrament of Baptism is either caught at or attempted) is reckoned, by the holy Cyprian, among the Martyrs who are baptized in their own blood: a circumstance, which, in the heat of persecution, befel many who had never been baptised with Water. When the faith of the disciples faded, then did his faith flourish from the dead wood. They despaired concerning the Saviour dying: he hoped in the Saviour, dying along with himself. They fled away from the author of life he prayed to the associate of his punishment. They bewailed his death, as the death of a man: he believed that, after death, he would reign triumphant. They deserted the sponsor of their salvation: he honoured the companion of his cross. In him, who even then believed in Christ, was found the full stature of a Martyr: they, who were hereafter to be Martyrs, were then found wanting. And this was clear to the eyes of the Lord: hence, to him, not indeed baptised, but washed (as it were) in the Blood of Martyrdom he immediately gave such a measure

of felicity. August. de. Anim. et ejus Orig. ad Renat. lib. 1. c. 9. Oper. Vol. 7. p. 428.

In Latin:

Nemo fit membrum Christi, nisi aut baptismate in Christo aut morte pro Christo. Unde et latro ille, non ante crucem Domini sectator sed in cruce confessor, de quo nonnunquam præjudicium captatur sive tentatur, contra Baptismatis sacramentum, a Cypriano sancto inter Martyres computatur, qui suo sanguine baptizantur; quod plerisque non baptizatis, fervente persequutione, provenit. Tunc enim fides ejus de ligno floruit, quando discipulorum marcuit. Illi enim desperaverunt de moriente; ille speravit in commoriente. Refugerunt illi authorem vitæ; rogavit ille consortem pœnæ. Doluerunt illi tanquam hominis mortem; credidit ille regnaturum esse post mortem. Deseruerunt illi sponsorem salutis; honoravit ille socium crucis. Inventa est in eo mensura Martyris, qui tunc in Christum credidit, quando defecerunt, qui futuri erant Martyres.

At page 220, Faber again quotes St Augustine, in words and ideas similar to many of the preceding extracts: it is unnecessary to repeat it.

LVIII. TYCHONIUS AFER.

Tychonius Afer is placed by Dupin in the 5th century, by Bibliotheca Gallandii in the 4th century. Dupin states that he was an ingenious man of the party of the Donatists, very skilful in the literal sense of the Scriptures, and well versed in Ecclesiastical studies, that he composed a treatise containing seven rules,' for the explaining of the Holy Scripture. Dupin gives only about thirty lines on him; and the only mention or allusion to Baptism is the following:

He rejected the conjectural opinion of the Millennium; and maintained, that there should be but one resurrection of the good and sinners, which would happen at the same time; insomuch that, according to his judgment, the first resurrection of the just is here below in the Church, when being delivered by faith from the death of sin, we receive, by Baptism, the earnest of eternal Life.

In the Bibliotheca Gallandii, vol. i, is Tychonii Afri de septem regulis-containing 24 pages, in Latin. Gallandius gives also a page in the "Prolegomena," writing on him as "in divinis litteris eruditus," and quoting GENNADIUS as writing: "De co passim sermonem habens Sanctus Augustinus qui et ipsum probe

noverat et complura ejus scripta perlegerat." "Hominem ait fuisse et acri ingenio præditum et uberi eloquio, sed tamen Donatistam."

On examining all through his 'septem regulis,' and also an Appendix, nothing appears on Baptism; or to account for the above quotation from Dupi n.

LIX. VICTORINUS FABIUS MARIUS AFER.

DUPIN names a Victorinus bishop of Passaw, but of the third century, but it seems not this Victorinus F. Marius Afer—given in the 8th Vol. of Bibliotheca Gallandii; where he is stated as of the fourth century to have flourished A. D. 390. There are in Gallandius 70 pages of his work.

But neither in the mention of him by Dupin or Gallandius is there any thing on Baptism.

In the notes to Dupin it is stated that there were five of this name-but it seems none of those five was this Victorinus F. Marius Afer.