7. We
may not receive Baptism twice or thrice; else it might be said, Though
I have failed once, I shall set it right a second time: whereas
if thou fail once, the thing cannot be set right; for there is one
Lord, and one faith, and one baptism Eph. iv. 5.: for only the heretics are
re-baptized This sentence is
omitted in one ms. (Paris, 1824), but probably
only through the repetition of the word “baptism.” On
the laws of the Church against the repetition of Baptism, and
concerning the re-baptism of heretics, see Tertull. de
Baptismo, c. xv: Apost. Const. xv.:
Bingham, xii. 5: Hefele, Councils, Lib. I. c. 2:
Dictionary Christian Antiq. I. p. 167 a., because the former
was no baptism.