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9.  When therefore thou renouncest Satan, utterly breaking all thy covenant with him, that ancient league with hell Is. xxviii. 15., there is opened to thee the paradise of God, which He planted towards the East, whence for his transgression our first father was banished; and a symbol of this was thy turning from West to East, the place of light Cf. S. Ambros. De Mysteriis, c. ii. 7:  “Ad orientem converteris; qui enim renunciat diabolo ad Christum convertitur:”  “Where he plainly intimates.…that turning to the East was a symbol of their aversion from Satan and conversion unto Christ, that is, from darkness to light, from serving idols, to serve Him, who is the Sun of Righteousness and Fountain of Light” (Bingh. Ant. xi. vii. 7)..  Then thou wert told to say, “I believe in the Father, and in the Son, and in the Holy Ghost, and in one Baptism of repentance Cf. Didaché, vii. 1; Justin M. Apolog. I. c. 61 A; Swainson, Creeds, c. iii. on the short Baptismal Professions.  “The writings of S. Cyprian distinctly tell us, that in his day the form of interrogation at Baptism was fixed and definite.  He speaks of the “usitata et legitima verba interrogationis,”—and we know as distinctly that the interrogation included the words, “Dost thou believe in God the Father, in His Son Christ, in the Holy Spirit?  Dost thou believe in remission of sins and eternal life through the Church?”.”  Of which things we spoke to thee at length in the former Lectures, as God’s grace allowed us.

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