Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: Series I/Volume IV/Donatist Controversy/On Baptism/Book VII/Chapter 26

50.&#160; Also another Lucius of Membresa said:&#160; "It is written, &#8216;God heareth not sinners.&#8217; &#160; How can he who is a sinner be heard in baptism?"

51.&#160; We answer:&#160; How is the covetous man heard, or the robber, and usurer, and murderer?&#160; Are they not sinners?&#160; And yet Cyprian, while he finds fault with them in the Catholic Church, yet tolerates them.