Of the Second COUNCIL of Sirmium.
THE Second Council of Sirmium was made up of Eastern Bishops assembled by the Emperour Con∣stantius * 1.1 in the Year 351. Basil of Ancyra entred the Lists there against Photinus, and convicted him of Heresy. He was afterwards Deposed by the Bishops, and sent into banishment by the Authority of the Emperour. In this Council was made the First Creed of Sirmium wherein the Bishops make profes∣sion of believing in Jesus Christ the only Son of God, born of his Father before all Worlds, God of God, Light of Light, by Whom all Things were made. There they anathematize those that said, He was crea∣ted of nothing, or of another Substance, or that he was not of God, or that he was made in Time; Those that said there are Two Gods, or those who on the contrary averr'd, That the Father, or at least one part of him, was born of Mary, and also those who made no distinction of the Three Divine Persons, or who said, That the Divinity was changed into Flesh, and that it was subject to Sufferings and Changes. This is the Sum of that long Creed quoted in Greek by St. Athanasius, and in Latin by St. Hilary, who has considered and explained it as a very Orthodox Confession of Faith.