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De Corona, 3

Latin text from Migne PL, Vol. 2, Col. 78

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Et quamdiu per hanc lineam serram reciprocabimus habentes observationem inveteratam, quae praeveniendo statum fecit? Hanc si nulla Scriptura determinavit, certe consuetudo corroboravit, quae sine dubio de traditione manavit. Quomodo enim usurpari quid potest, si traditum prius non est? Etiam in traditionis obtentu exigenda est, inquis, auctoritas scripta. Ergo quaeramus an et traditio, nisi scripta, non debeat recipi? Plane negabimus recipiendam, si nulla exempla praejudicent aliarum observationum, quas sine ullius scripturae instrumento, solius traditionis titulo, et exinde consuetudinis patrocinio vindicamus. Denique, ut a baptismate ingrediar, aquam adituri, ibidem, sed et aliquanto prius in Ecclesia sub antistitis manu contestamur nos renuntiare diabolo, et pompae, et angelis ejus: dehinc ter mergitamur, amplius aliquid respondentes, quam Dominus in Evangelio determinavit. Inde suscepti, lactis et mellis concordiam praegustamus: exque ea die, lavacro quotidiano per totam hebdomadem abstinemus. Eucharistiae sacramentum, et in tempore victus, et omnibus mandatum a Domino, etiam antelucanis coetibus, nec de aliorum manu quam praesidentium sumimus: oblationes pro defunctis, pro natalitiis annua die facimus: die Dominico jejunium nefas ducimus, vel de geniculis adorare. Eadem immunitate a die Paschae in Pentecosten usque gaudemus. Calicis aut panis etiam nostri aliquid decuti in terram anxie patimur. Ad omnem progressum atque promotum, ad omnem aditum et exitum, ad calciatum, ad lavacra, ad mensas, ad lumina, ad cubilia, ad sedilia, quaecumque nos conversatio exercet, frontem crucis signaculo terimus.