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Furthermore, in those days he ought to be instructed in the faith of the incarnation of Christ, so that he may come to baptism a believer. Rabanus says in De institutione clericorum. And he assumes the canon in De consecratione, distinction 3, chapter "Ante baptismum" Before baptism. The text brings in the story of John 9, where the Lord first smeared the eyes of the blind man with clay and spittle, then sent him to the waters of Siloam. Thus, first the one to be baptized ought to hear the faith of the incarnation of Christ, and thus be admitted to baptism as a believer, so that he may know of whose grace he is a participant, and to whom he henceforth becomes a debtor. Thus also the church ordained, as the text says in that same place in the Second Council of Braga, that for twenty days before anyone is baptized—that is, from the middle of Lent while baptism was done at Easter and Pentecost—there ought to be instruction in the Symbol, "I believe in one God, the Father, etc." Indeed, even on Palm Sunday it is to be preached publicly, as is in the chapter "Ante viginti dies" Before twenty days, and the chapter "Symbolum" Symbol in De consecratione, distinction 4. Thus also the precepts of the Decalogue are recalled with a brief exposition. Similarly, the Lord's Prayer and the Angelic Salutation with others if some Catholic documents occur. Thus Augustine wishes in the sermon for Easter, which begins, "This present day." And he assumes the canon in De consecratione, distinction 4, chapter "Vos autem" You, however. It says then: I admonish all, as many men as women, who have received children in baptism, that you recognize that you have stood as sponsors before God for those whom you have taken from the sacred font. Therefore, always admonish them so that they guard chastity, love justice, and hold onto charity. Before all things, hold the Symbol and the Lord's Prayer yourselves, and show them to those whom you have snatched from the sacred font. And as a sign of this, although the canon from the Month of Leo, in the chapter "Non plures" Not more of the same distinction, says one alone and not more ought to receive a child from baptism and confirmation similarly, and not the same one unless necessity urges; wherefore, however, when adults are baptized, they have more godparents, not for the sake of profit which often there