200 THE SEVENTH COUNCIL OF CARTHAGE. and when the letterof Jubaianus writtento Cyprianhad been read,as alsothe replyof Cyprian to Jubaianus,about baptizingheretics,and what the same Jubaianus had sub sequentlyrejoinedto Cyprian,— Cyprian said: You have heard, my dearly beloved colleagues,what Jubaianusour co-bishophas writtento me, taking counselof my poorin telligenceconcerningthe unlawful and profanebaptismof heretics,as wellaswhat I wrote in answer to him, decreeing, to wit,what we have once and again and frequentlyde termined,that hereticswho come to the church must be baptized and sanctifiedby the baptism of the church. Moreover,anotherletterof Jubaianus has alsobeen readto you, wherein,replying,in accordancewith his sincereand religiousdevotion,to my letter,he not only acquiescedin what I had said,but confessingthat he had been instructed thereby,he returned thanks for it. It remains,thatupon thissame matter each of us should bringforward whatwe think,judging no man, nor rejectingany one from theright of communion, if he should think differentlyfrom us. For neitherdoes any of us sethimselfup as a bishopof bishops,1 nor by tyrannicalterrordoes any compel hiscolleaguetothe necessityof obedience; sinceeverybishop,accordingto the allowanceof hislibertyand power,has hisown properright of judgment, and can no more be judged by anotherthan he himselfcan judge another. But let us allwait forthe judgment of our Lord Jesus Christ,who is the only one thathas the power both of preferringus in the government of His church,and of judging us in our conduct there. Casciliusof Bilta3 said: I know only one baptism in the church,and none out of the church. This one willbe here,- where thereisthe truehope and the certainfaith. For thus it is written:"One faith,one hope, one baptism;"* not among heretics,where thereisno hope,and the faithisfalse, where allthingsare carriedon by lying; where a demoniac 1Of coursethisimpliesa rebuketotheassumptionofStephen. 2Scil.ofMauritauia;possibly,saystheOxfordtranslator,Bidil,BiU, or" urbsAbitensis." 3 Eph.iv.5.