The defense of the aunsvvere to the Admonition against the replie of T.C. By Iohn VVhitgift Doctor of Diuinitie. In the beginning are added these. 4. tables. 1 Of dangerous doctrines in the replie. 2 Of falsifications and vntruthes. 3 Of matters handled at large. 4 A table generall.

T. C. Pag. 70. Sect. 3.

You come after to the Councel of Nice, wherin I wil not sticke with you that you say it was holden the. 330. yere of the Lord, when it may appeare by Eusebius his computation, that it was holden Anno Domini. 320.

Io. Whitgifte.

I know that there is some varietie among the writers, for the time of this Coun∣cell.* 1.1 Musculus in his common places sayth, that it was celebrated Anno Domini. 313 the writers of the Magd. Historie, centu. 4. cap. 9. affirme (as they say) out of Eusebius that it was Anno Dom. 320. Master Foxe Tom. 1. fol. 12 thinketh that it was Anno Dom. 340. and so dothe Illyricus him selfe in his defense of the Magd. Historie, thoughe he séeme to be of a contrarie iudgement in the Historie it selfe. Pantaleon in his Crono∣graphie placeth it Anno Do. 330. Some there be that say it was. 324. &c. So that to dif∣fer in the yere is no suche matter as deserueth any suche nippe. But if all circum∣stances

be well considered. It will fall oute that Eusebius himselfe confirmeth that which I haue set downe, touching the time of that Councell. For Constantine began his raigne according to Eusebius his Cronicle. Anno. 311. and this is noted also Cent. 4. fol. 62. But the Nicene Councell according to the sayde Centurie fol. 617. was holden Anno. 17. Constantini. So that it must néedes be by their owne collection Anno. 328. or very neare. But if we admitte Eusebius Cronicle for the beginning of Constantines raigne videlicet Anno. 311. it will fall out by Eusebius himselfe vpon the time which I haue appointed, for Lib. 4. de vita Constantini, he sayth that the Nicene Councell was holden Anno vicesimo imperij Const. So that it must néedes be Anno. 330. or in the begin∣ning. 331. at the vttermost, but vnder it cannot be.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Uar〈1 line〉〈1 line〉tie con∣cerning the time of y^e Ni∣cen Councell.