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Contra Faustum Manichaeum libri triginta tres

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Proinde prima sacramenta, quae observabantur et celebrabantur ex lege, praenuntiativa erant Christi venturi; quae cum suo adventu Christus implevisset, ablata sunt, et ideo ablata, quia impleta; non enim venit legem solvere, sed adimplere. Et alia sunt instituta virtute maiora, utilitate meliora, actu faciliora, numero pauciora, tamquam iustitia fidei revelata et in libertatem vocatis filiis dei iugo servitutis ablato, quod duro et carni dedito populo congruebat. p. 511,3

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Reply to Faustus the Manichaean

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Thus the sacraments of the Old Testament, which were celebrated in obedience to the law, were types of Christ who was to come; and when Christ fulfilled them by His advent they were done away, and were done away because they were fulfilled. For Christ came not to destroy, but to fulfill. And now that the righteousness of faith is revealed, and the children of God are called into liberty, and the yoke of bondage which was required for a carnal and stiffnecked people is taken away, other sacraments are instituted, greater in efficacy, more beneficial in their use, easier in performance, and fewer in number.