A History of the Church in Seven Books Author:Socrates Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: terized our examination of these things, as well as with what deliberateness our assent has been given, and on what justifiable grounds we resisted the introduct... more »ion of certain objectionable expressions; and finally, that it was only after mature consideration of the full import of some points to which we demurred at first, that we were induced to withdraw our opposition, perceiving them in fact to be quite accordant with what we had originally proposed as a sound confession of faith." Such was the letter addressed by Eusebius Pam- philus to the Christians at Caesarea in Palestine. The Synod itself also, with one accord, wrote the following epistle to the church of the Alexandrians, and to believers in Egypt, Libya, and Pentapolis. CHAPTER IX. THE EPISTLE OF THE SYNOD, RELATIVE TO ITS DECISIONS: AND THE CONDEMNATION OF AIUUS, WITH ALL THOSE WHO HELD HIS OPINIONS. " To the holy, by the grace of God, and great church of the Alexandrians, and to our beloved brethren throughout Egypt, Libya, and Pentapolis, the bishops assembled at Nice, constituting the great and holy Synod, send greeting in the Lord. " Since, by the grace of God, a great and holy Synod has been convened at Nice, our most pious sovereign Constantine having summoned us out of various cities and provinces for that purpose, it appeared to us indispensably necessary that a lettershould be written to you on the part of the sacred Synod; in order that ye may know what subjects were brought under consideration, what rigidly investigated, and also what was eventually determined on and decreed. In the first place then the impiety and guilt of Arius and his adherents were examined into, in the presence of our most religious emperor Constantine: and it was unanimously decided that his impious opinion should be ...« less