A TREATISE AGAINST THE HERETIC NOVAHAN. BY AN ANONYMOUS -WRITER. Tliatthehope ofpardon sliouldnotbe deniedto the j]HILE I was meditating and impatientlytossing in my mind what I ought to do concerningthose pitiablebrethrenwho, wounded, not of theirown will,but by the onsetof a ragingdevil,havelived untilnow, that is,through a long course of time,in theen duranceof theirpunishment; lo,thereappearedopposedtome anotherenemy, and the adversaryof hisown paternalaffec tion— the hereticNovatian— who notonly,as itissignifiedin the Gospel,passed by the prostratewounded man, as didthe priestor the Levite,but by an ingeniousand novel cruelty ratherwould slaythe wounded man, by takingaway thehope of salvation,by denying the mercy of hisFather,by rejecting the repentanceof his brother. Marvellous,how bitter,how harsh,how perverseare many things! But one more easily perceivesthe strawin another'seye than the beam in ones own. Let not the abrupt madness of that perfidiousheretic move or disturbus however,belovedbrethren,who, although he is placed in such great guiltof dissensionand schism, and is separatedfrom the church,with sacrilegioustemerity does not shrink from hurling back his chargesupon us: for although he is now by himself made unclean,denled with the filthof sacrilege,he contends that we are so. And although it is written that the dogs should remain without,and the apostlehas taught that these same dogs must be shunned, as we read, for he says,"Beware of 430