“For with good reason indeed do we feel enmity toward Novatian, who rent the Church and drew away some of the brethren into impieties and blasphemies, and brought in most unholy teaching about God, and slanders our most gracious Lord Jesus Christ as merciless; and beyond all this, he sets at naught the holy washing, and overturns the faith and confession that precede it, and utterly puts the Holy Spirit to flight from them, even if there was any hope of His remaining with them or even returning to them.”