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== Council of Carthage V A.D. 401 ==

== Council of Carthage V A.D. 401 ==

:“Item: It seemed good that whenever there were not found reliable witnesses who could testify that without any doubt they [abandoned children] were baptized and when the children themselves were not, on account of their tender age, able to answer concerning the giving of the sacraments to them, all such children should be baptized without scruple, lest a hesitation should deprive them of the cleansing of the sacraments. This was urged by the [North African] legates, our brethren, since they redeem many such [abandoned children] from the barbarians” —Canon 7 <br>—[https://www.monergism.com/thethreshold/sdg/Canons%20of%20the%20Council%20of%20Carthage%20to%20Investigate%20Pelagianism.pdf Canons of the Council of Carthage to Investigate Pelagianism, May 1, 418, Canons 2 ''and'' 3.1].

:“Item: It seemed good that whenever there were not found reliable witnesses who could testify that without any doubt they [abandoned children] were baptized and when the children themselves were not, on account of their tender age, able to answer concerning the giving of the sacraments to them, all such children should be baptized without scruple, lest a hesitation should deprive them of the cleansing of the sacraments. This was urged by the [North African] legates, our brethren, since they redeem many such [abandoned children] from the barbarians” —Canon 7 <ref name=links/> <br>—[https://www.monergism.com/thethreshold/sdg/Canons%20of%20the%20Council%20of%20Carthage%20to%20Investigate%20Pelagianism.pdf Canons of the Council of Carthage to Investigate Pelagianism, May 1, 418, Canons 2 ''and'' 3.1].

== Council of Mileum II A.D. 416 ==

== Council of Mileum II A.D. 416 ==

:“[W]hoever says that infants fresh from their mothers’ wombs ought not to be baptized, or say that they are indeed baptized unto the remission of sins, but that they draw nothing of the original sin of Adam, which is expiated in the bath of regeneration . . . let him be anathema [excommunicated]. Since what the apostle [Paul] says, ‘Through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin, and so passed to all men, in whom all have sinned’ [Rom. 5:12], must not be understood otherwise than the Catholic Church spread everywhere has always understood it. For on account of this rule of faith even infants, who in themselves thus far have not been able to commit any sin, are therefore truly baptized unto the remission of sins, so that that which they have contracted from generation may be cleansed in them by regeneration” —Canon 3 <ref name=links/> <br> —[https://sensusfidelium.us/the-sources-of-catholic-dogma-the-denzinger/st-zosimus-417-4i8/ St. Zosimus 417-418 Canons 101.Canon 1 ''and'' 102.Canon 2].

:“[W]hoever says that infants fresh from their mothers’ wombs ought not to be baptized, or say that they are indeed baptized unto the remission of sins, but that they draw nothing of the original sin of Adam, which is expiated in the bath of regeneration . . . let him be anathema [excommunicated]. Since what the apostle [Paul] says, ‘Through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin, and so passed to all men, in whom all have sinned’ [Rom. 5:12], must not be understood otherwise than the Catholic Church spread everywhere has always understood it. For on account of this rule of faith even infants, who in themselves thus far have not been able to commit any sin, are therefore truly baptized unto the remission of sins, so that that which they have contracted from generation may be cleansed in them by regeneration” —Canon 3 <ref name=links/> <br> —[https://sensusfidelium.us/the-sources-of-catholic-dogma-the-denzinger/st-zosimus-417-4i8/ St. Zosimus 417-418 Canons 101.Canon 1 ''and'' 102.Canon 2].