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Tertullian: Treatises on Penance: On Penitence and On Purity is unavailable, but you can change that!

Addressed to early Christians on the subject of repentance and forgiveness, this volume provides a key text on postapostolic practical theology. The second treatise, On Purity is one of Tertullian’s most virulent anti-Montanist treatises.

classed among the auditors in the catechumenate,101 he is, on this account, still permitted to sin. As soon as you know the Lord you must fear Him; as soon as you have made His acquaintance you must revere Him. But what is the point of knowing Him when you have the same attachments which you had before when you knew Him not? What, then, distinguishes you from the perfect servant of God? Is there one Christ for the baptized and another for the catechumens? Is there a different hope or reward? a different
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