Baptism pertains to the Church alone.
Murder, considered a crime when people commit it singly, is transformed into a virtue when they do it en masse.
Knowing that there is one Baptism, we who hold the head and root of the One Church know for certain that to him who is outside the Church nothing is lawful.
If He prayed who was without sin, how much more it becometh a sinner to pray!
The beard must not be plucked. Ye shall not deface the figure of your beard.
Let us, then, who in Baptism have both died and been buried in respect to the carnal sins of the old man, who have risen again with Christ in the heavenly regeneration, both think upon and do the things that are Christ's.