The fourteenth advice concerning the baptizing of Jews or Saracens.

As the Council of Agde says, and also the Fifth Council of Toledo, which are placed in the canon, De consecratione On Consecration, distinction 4, chapter "Iudei" Jews, and likewise, many of those Jews return frequently to their perfidy, and blaspheme more after baptism than they did before Christ, and practice abominations concerning the rite of Christians. Therefore, the church ordained primarily that for eight months before they are baptized, they ought to enter the threshold of the church with the catechumens to the mass of the catechumens, which lasts until the secret the secret prayer of the Canon of the Mass, and hear the sermon. But subsequently, in the chapter "Ne quod absit" Lest it be absent, Pope Gregory reduced this time to forty days. Whence the text says: lest a long delay be able to recall the minds of the Jews to the past, speak with our brother, the bishop of that place, so that a penance, that is, penitence and abstinence from the past conversation of forty days, being indicted beforehand, and then on the Lord's Day, or if a most celebrated feast occurs, with the mercy of Almighty God protecting them, baptize them. And Richard says concerning the fourth book of the Sentences, distinction 4: penance, which is not a sacrament or contrition formed by grace, but a certain unformed attrition, or displeasure, or detestation of the committed sin with the purpose of abstaining and receiving baptismal grace, or the effect of baptism, does not induce remission of sin for them on account of the inefficacy of the sacrament, but on account of the reverence of baptism, it serves as a probation of the Jews receiving baptism, a detestation of the old life, and a legitimate initiation of the new life. And Richard says this is to be observed today, although the gloss on the chapter "Ne quod absit" says it is not necessary where an opposite custom does not stand in the way. And for that position is Rabanus in his De institutione clericorum On the Instruction of Clergy, as the canon says in De consecratione, distinction 4, in the chapter "Primum interroget" First let him ask: let the pagan or infidel be asked if he renounces the devil and all his damaging works, and all his deceits, and