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Dubious or Spurious Writings · Twelve Topics on the Faith. Wherein is Given Also the Formula of Excommunication, and an Explication is Subjoined to Each

Topic VII

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If any one affirms that Christ is saved, and refuses to acknowledge that He is the Saviour of the world, and the Light of the world, even as it is written,405 let him be anathema.

Explication.

How could one say that Christ is saved, when the Lord Himself says, "I am the life;"406 and, "I am come that they might have life;"407 and, "He that believeth on me shall not see death, but he shall behold the life eternal?"408

Notes

  1. 405

    ; ; ; iii.; viii.; ix.; xii.

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Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 6, ed. Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson and A. Cleveland Coxe (1885–96). Public domain. Text from the Christian Classics Ethereal Library.