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.