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186 grace in Baptism. Shall we then, having known this salvation, assured to us by the, the , and the , abandon the form of doctrine which we have received? The loss is equal, to depart without receiving Baptism, or to receive it, omitting any part of that tradition. And he who keepeth not, throughout, that confession which we made when we, being rescued from idols, were first brought in to approach the living, and holdeth it not through his whole life as a sure preservative, maketh himself an alien to the promises of , and impugneth his own covenant, which he made at his confession of faith. For since Baptism is to me the beginning of life, and the first of days was that day of regeneration, it is manifest that those words uttered at the grace of adoption are of all the most exalted. Shall I then betray that tradition which brought me to the light,—which gave me the knowledge of, whereby I, an enemy through sin, was made a child of ? Rather, do I pray for myself, that I may depart for the with this confession; and I exhort them to keep the faith inviolate to the day of ; and to hold the  undivided from the  and the, preserving the doctrine of their Baptism in the confession of their faith, and in the fulfilment of glory." This is the language, not of a sermon, but of what would now be called controversial divinity; and such is the way in which the fathers, when speaking of the Ever-blessed Trinity, incorporated the memory of their Baptismal blessings with their warnings not to forsake the Catholic doctrine. In like manner says St. Cyril of Jerusalem , "Let no one separate the old Covenant from the new. Let no one say there was one Spirit there, another here; since he would offend against the Himself, who is honoured with the  and the, and who, at the time of the Holy Baptism, was comprehended with them in the Holy Trinity. For the only-begotten of  said clearly to the Apostles, 'Go—baptizing them in the name of,' &c. Our hope then "is in the, and the , and the ." And