It was after this Council, and before _Stephen_’s Answer, that St. _Cyprian_ wrote the famous Letter to _Jubaianus_, who was a Bishop; but in what Province, or of what City, we know not. _Jubaianus_ had, by a Letter, asked St. _Cyprian_’s Opinion about the Baptizing of Heretics; and, at the same time, sent him the Copy of a Letter, which he had received; wherein many Reasons were alleged to prove, that Baptism, by whomsoever administred, not even the _Marcionites_ excepted, ought to be deemed valid. The Author of this Letter inveighs bitterly against St. _Cyprian_, and those of his Party, styling them Betrayers of the Truth, and Enemies to the Peace and Unity of the Church[434]. _Baronius_, and likewise _Pamelius_, ascribe that Piece to _Stephen_, not apprised that they must consequently own the Doctrine held by _Stephen_ to have been no less erroneous than that which was held by St. _Cyprian_, if the Doctrine of the Church be true, as I have observed above. But we have not sufficient Grounds to suppose _Stephen_ the Author of it, since many besides him writ in favour of that Opinion. St. _Cyprian_, in Answer to _Jubaianus_, sent him his Letter to _Quintus_, that of the first Council to the Bishops of _Numidia_; and, moreover, wrote him a long Letter, with a great many Arguments in favour of his Opinion, and the Answers to what was objected against it; especially in the Letter, whereof _Jubaianus_ had transmitted him a Copy[435]. [Sidenote: _His Desire to live in Peace and Unity with those who held the opposite Opinion._] He ends his Letter by a most solemn Protestation of Unity and Charity with those who should differ from him; which is related at Length by St. _Jerom_[436], and likewise by St. _Austin_, who tells us, that he was never tired with reading over and over again those Words of Peace and Charity, breathing nothing but the sweetest Odour of that Union, in which the holy Prelate anxiously sought to live with his Brethren[437]. To this Letter _Jubaianus_ returned Answer, that he had fully convinced him, and that he willingly embraced his Opinion[438]. In that Letter St. _Cyprian_ seems to have mustered all the Arguments that could be alleged in favour of his Opinion; and therefore St. _Austin_ has employed his Third, Fourth, and Fifth Books on Baptism, in confuting them.