CAP '1[5. touching Antichtift. r t Nicephorits,, who beingbut late writers in refpea of' Chafe ancients,, what credit deferve they in this th ing?Could t hcf later menknow the truth more eel *_ainly,which were further offfrom all means to find it out ?But lee us fee in a word,what groundeveryof them do rely upon. Ifidories in his cronicle, becaufe perhaps he knew that the Romans boatedof Confamines baptifine ; and knew withall xv>hat thean- cient writershad faii-df this matter; that both might be thought to betrue,he will havehim baptizedat Rorre,btit rebaptized by Eufebitts of Nicodemia the Arrian.But he markerh.not well the ancient Hitto- rie, which with oie content reporteth that ha deferred his Bap- ttrme unto thatdg, becaufe he defzred to bebaptized in [Ordain. How; did he defer it , if hehad received it before ar Rome f Moreover he rafhly and injurinufly chargerh.the godly Emperour with the grie- vous crime et violaring his faith : who neither Eufebitas ofNicods- miet,nor any other Arrian could ever lead away from the truth ; fee- jag while,he lived, he fo refgained them all by his authoritie, as they neither could nor durtt move any thing against the faith eftablifhed. Socrateslib.z.chap.z.13ut the AIrminine fynod abundantly teftifieth in anEpiftle to boortantinehis fon,that he perlifedconfiant in thetrue .Nicenefaith evon to his lait end. wehavejudged it abfurd, fay they, even then /o foon as he being b,:ptiteed is departedfrom men, andgone unto his due reJî,:.firer him to mindfor togo about a new thing , and to contemnefuch holy Confelours andMartyrs. 'There things agree not to a man fallen frorii the truth. And after that again ; And this more- overwe intreat you, that nothing beeither taken aWayfrom the things which werebefore ordained,nor any thing added:but that all things may remain intire and unviolated, Which thrauäh'thepiety of your Father, are kept unto this very dty.Theod.lib.2. r9.`ozom.lib.4, a 8.Far be it therefore that we irould think he made ilzipwrackof faith, and de- fireda fecond baptifine of an Arrian. Zonarar mentioned but one Baptifme , and that by Sylvcfiler ; but his tale agrees not with the truth. For he will have It that Conftdntine then firil forfook the worshipping or Idols, and was cleanfed fiorn his leprofie by the Baptifme of 'Sylvester, after that, Licinitu being (lain, he alone y had the foveraignity. But Eufebin-s who is a witneffe that was then living,telleth us,that forthwith upon thé fight of that miráculous appár ition in the hea- vens he called the Chriftians untohimfelfè', and.that he was taught the whole way bffalvation by them, that he gave his minde torhe reading of the holy Scriptures., that he did honour the Prie(ts greatly
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