The history of the church from our Lords incarnation, to the twelth year of the Emperour Maricius Tiberius, or the Year of Christ 594 / as it was written in Greek, by Eusebius Pamphilius ..., Socrates Scholasticus, and Evagrius Scholasticus ... ; made English from that edition of these historians, which Valesius published at Paris in the years 1659, 1668, and 1673 ; also, The life of Constantine in four books, written by Eusibius Pamphilus, with Constantine's Oration to the convention of the saints, and Eusebius's Speech in praise of Constantine, spoken at his tricennalia ; Valesius's annotations on these authors, are done into English, and set at their proper places in the margin, as likewise a translation of his account of their lives and writings ; with two index's, the one, of the principal matters that occur in the text, the other, of those contained in the notes.

CHAP. XVIII. How the Emperour of the Western parts requested of his brother, that such persons might be sent, as could give an account of [the deposition of] Athanasius and Paulus. And, that they who were sent published another form of the Creed.

BUt the Emperour of the Western parts, being informed of * 1.1 their sufferings, a 1.2 sym∣pathized with them. And he sends a Letter to his brother, signifying his desire to have three Bishops sent to him, who might give an account of Paulus's and Athanasius's deposition. b 1.3 The persons sent were Narcissus the Cilician, The∣odorus the Thracian, Maris the Chalcedonian, and Marcus the Syrian. Who being arrived, would in no wise admit of a congress with Athanasius. But, having suppressed the Creed published at Antioch, and patched up another form, they pre∣sented it to the Emperour Constans; the words whereof were these.

Another Exposition of the Faith.]

We believe in one God, the Father Almigh∣ty, the Creatour and maker of all things, * 2.1 Of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named. And in his only begotten Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, who was begotten of the Fa∣ther before all worlds. God of God. Light of Light. By whom all things in heaven and earth, visible and invisible, were made. Who is the Word, and the Wisdome: and the Power, and the Life, and the true Light. Who in the last days was for our sakes made man, and was born of the holy Virgin. He was crucified, and died: and was buried, and arose from the dead on the third day, and ascended into the heavens, and was seated at the right hand of the Father, and shall come at the end of the world, to judge the quick and dead, and shall render to every person ac∣cording to his works; whose Kingdom being per∣petual, shall continue unto infinite ages. For He shall sit at the right hand of the Father, not only in this present world, but in that also which is to come. And [we believe] in the holy Ghost, that is, in the † 2.2 Paraclete: whom [Christ] having pro∣mised to the Apostles, after his assent into the hea∣vens, he sent him, ‖ 2.3 That he might teach them and bring all things to their remembrance. By whom also those souls who have sincerely believed in him, shall be sanctified. But those who say that the Son [existed] of things which are not, or of another substance, and not of God, and that there was a time when he was not, these persons the Catholick Church hath determined to be Aliens [from it.]

Having delivered these things, and exhibited many other to the Emperour, they departed without doing any thing further. Moreover, whilst there was hitherto an inseparable com∣munion between the Western and Eastern [Bi∣shops,] another Heresie sprang up at Sirmium, which is a City of Illyricum. For Photinus, (who presided over the Churches there,) a person born in Galatia the Less, a disciple of that * 2.4 Mar∣cellus who had been deposed, following his masters steps, asserted the Son [of God] to be a meer man. But we will speak concerning these things in their due place.

Notes

• * 1.1

  That is, Paulus and Athanasius's sufferings.
• a 1.2

  The rea∣ding here, and in Ro∣bert Ste∣phens Edi∣tion, is [〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉.] But I sup∣pose it should be thus [〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, understanding their sufferings, sympathized with them:] for the word 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 has the same import with 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 to suffer with. But the reading may be [〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 was very much troubled at:] which emendation is the best. Vales.
• b 1.3

  Some few months after the Synod at Antioch which was held at the Dedication; the Eastern Bishops made another form of the Creed, and sent it to Constans Augustus, and to the Western Bi∣shops, by Narcissus, Theodorus, Maris, and Marcus, as if it had been dictated by the Synod at Antioch. So Athanasius at∣tests in his book de Synod. Arimin. and Seleuc. This therefore hapned in the year of Christ 342. Socrates does evidently agree with Athanasius. For he says, that those messengers sent by the Eastern Bishops suppressed that form of the Creed composed by the Antiochian Synod; and instead thereof produced another, which themselves had made. Vales.
• * 2.1

  Ephes. 3. 15.
• † 2.2

  Or Com∣forter.
• ‖ 2.3

  See John 14. 26.
• * 2.4

  See So∣crates, book 1. chap. 36.