of God is not like to his Father; that he is unlike in Substance; that he is a Creature; that he is another God than God the Father, &c. and at the end of thefe Anathemas there is one against those who say the Father and the Son are confubftantial. Immediately after, in the fame year, was held the 4th Council of Sirmium, compofed of Bishops from the Eaft and from the Weft, in which they made a new Creed different from that of Ancyra, but without the word Confubftantial, which all the Bishops figned, and amongst the reft Liberius the Succeffor of Julius Bifhop of Rome. In the next year 359 was held the fifth Council of Sirmium, where the Emperor Conftantius was prefent. Here they made a New Creed, in which they fay the Son is like the Father in all things but left out the word Subftance intirely. However Bafil Bishop of Ancyra added, in his fubscription, that the Son of God was like to his Father, not only by Confent

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Confent of Will, but also in Subftance and Effence. Here the Emperor declared his intentention of holding immediately two Councils at the fame time, one at Ariminum in Italy, of the Western Bifhops, and the other at Seleucia in Ifauria of the Easterns, for the final fetling of all difputes concerning this controverted point. Accordingly there came this year more than 400 Bishops to Ariminum, who, as Athanafius informs us, first declared for the Original Nicene Creed; but were afterwards prevailed upon to draw up another leaving out the word Substance. The Account which Saint Jerome gives of this particular is remarkable. Very plaufible reasons were given for laying afide the word Substance; because, they faid, it was not to be ⚫ found in Scripture, and scandalizes many unlearned people by it's novelty; * and

• therefore

* De Ufia vero nomine abjiciendo verifimilis ratio præbebatur. Quia in Scripturis aiebant non invenitur,

therefore it was left out.

The Bishops

little regarded the word, while the fenfe was preserved.' As the Deputies from the Council of Ariminum were going to wait on the Emperor at Conftantinople with the Creed which they had just made, they stopped a while at Nice a City of Thrace, where they, with feveral other Bishops, conftituted a little Council, in which the Creed of Ariminum was tranflated from Latin into Greek and fo fubfcribed by all present: and they published it under the Name of the Nicene Creed, as it was fuppofed, to give it the greater authority; but this expofed them to much Cenfure. At the fame time was held the famous Council of Seleucia, where were affembled 160 Eastern Bishops. They divided into two parties, the Anomoeans and the Homoioufians, the former headed by Acacius

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invenitur, et multos fimpliciores novitate fua fcandalizat. Placuit auferri. Non erat Epifcopis vereri de vocabulo, dum fenfus effet in tuto.

Acacius formerly the Difciple, now the Succeffor of the great Eufebius in the See of Cæfarea, and the latter by George Bishop of Laodicea. Acacius and his party were for laying afide the old Nicene Creed intirely, and compofing a new one. But the others were for retaining the Nicene Creed, expunging only the word soos Confubftantial. These were the moft numerous, and carried it fo far as to depofe Acacius Bishop of Cæfarea, George of Alexandria, Uranius of Tyre and fix others; and excommunicated nine more. The Acacians and their Antagonists immediately flew to Conftantinople to give the Emperor an account of what was done. He heard them all. And at the fame time arrived the Deputies with the Original Latin Ariminum Creed, and with the Greek Tranflation of it made and figned at Nice. And he reconciled the feveral contending parties by defiring them to fubfcribe this

Creed,

Creed, as containing and expreffing the Common Faith, which they all did.

BUT the Acacians, having remained at Conftantinople and ftrengthened their party, held a Council. there in the begining of the next year, in which they approved and established again the Creed. of Ariminum, but with this addition, that neither the word όσια effence, nor ὑποςασις Substance should be used any more in fpeaking of God. And, under various pretences, they cenfured and depofed the principal Bishops who had treated them hardly at Seleucia, namely Macedonius of Conftantinople, Bafil of Ancyra, Eleufius of Cyzicum, Euftathius of Sebaftea, Heortafius of Sardis, Dracontius of Pergamus, Sylvanus of Tarfus, Sophronius of Pompeiopolis, Elpidus of Satala, and Cyril of Jerufalem; and tranflated Eudoxius from Antioch to Conftantinople. In the year 361 there was another Council held at Antioch, in which Eudoxius