Chapter 50

1Let him who is instructed! with all care and heareth the perfectness? of the Gospel, be instructed not less than three years, and if he, loving, strive to be baptized, let him [then] be baptized. : But if he be quiet and meek and earnest, and persevering and abiding with him who teacheth him, with labour, with watching, with confession,! with subjection, and with prayers, and [if] he desire to be baptized sooner, let him be baptized. For it is not the time that is considered,® but the will of faith.”