7. For as to those whose soul and heart were one, I ask whether they were one through faith in God? Yes, assuredly, through faith, for through this the soul and heart of all were one. Again I ask, is the faith one or is there a second faith? One undoubtedly, and that on the authority of the Apostle himself, who proclaims one faith even as one Lord, and one baptism, and one hope, and one God388    Eph. iv. 4, 5.. If then it is through faith, that is, through the nature of one faith, that all are one, how is it that thou dost not understand a natural unity in the case of those who through the nature of one faith are one? For all were born again to innocence, to immortality, to the knowledge of God, to the faith of hope. And if these things cannot differ within themselves because there is both one hope and one God, as also there is one Lord and one baptism of regeneration; if these things are one rather by agreement than by nature, ascribe a unity of will to those also who have been born again into them. If, however, they have been begotten again into the nature of one life and eternity, then, inasmuch as their soul and heart are one, the unity of will fails to account for their case who are one by regeneration into the same nature.

7. Naturalis est fidelium per unius fidei naturam unitas. Fideles ex unitate sacramentorum sunt unum. ---Namque quorum anima et cor unum erat, quaero utrum per fidem Dei unum erat. Utique per fidem: per eam enim anima et cor unum omnium erat. Et interrogo, utrum fides una, anne altera sit? Una certe, etiam ipso Apostolo auctore (Ephes. IV, 4, 5), unam fidem, sicuti unum Dominum, et unum baptisma, et unam spem , et unum Deum praedicante. Si ergo per fidem, id est, per unius fidei naturam unum omnes erant; quomodo non naturalem in his intelligis unitatem, qui per naturam unius fidei unum sunt? Omnes enim renati 0241C erant ad innocentiam, ad immortalitatem, ad cognitionem Dei, ad spei fidem. Et si haec non possunt sibi esse diversa, quia et spes una est, et Deus unus, sicuti et Dominus unus est, et baptisma regenerationis unum est: si haec assensu potius unum sunt, quam natura; his quoque, qui in haec renati sunt, unitatem voluntatis adscribe. Si vero regenerati in unius vitae atque aeternitatis naturam sunt, per quod anima eorum et cor unum est; cessat in his assensus unitas, qui unum sunt in ejusdem regeneratione naturae.