Christian Martyrology: Including Accounts of the Ten Great Persecutions Under the Roman Emperors, and a Minute Narration of the Rise and Progress of the Inquisition (Classic Reprint)

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These had great respect paid to them in the primitive church; they were Often raised to holy orders merely on account of their constancy: and on their recommendation, penitent backsliders and apostates, (or the lapsed, as they were termed, ) were admitted into the full communion of the church, without passing through the whole round of penitentiary discipline. However, this was objected to by some of the fathers, particularly by St. Cyprian, and complained of as a matter that was dangerous in its consequences, as tending to subvert and destroy the discipline of the church.

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