..The Prcfact. refpeet unto ~the Authority of the Emperours~ and that J urifdittion in the Church vvhich began then to be fidt talked of. This way \Vas begun in the Councel of Nice, wherein although there was a determination of the .Do6hine concerning the Perfon of Chrifl: then in agi· tation, and oppofed, as unto his Divine Nature therein, according unto- the Truth, yet fundry evils and incon– veniences enfued thereon. For thencefotth the Faith of ChriO:ians 'began greatly· to be refolved into the Autho– rity of1nefl', and as 1nuch, if not tnore \V eight to be laid on what was decre"ed by the Fathers there aifembled, than on what was dearly taught in the Scriptures. Be– i'ides, being neceffitated as they thought, to explain their conceptions of the Divine Nature of Chrifl:, in words either not ufed in the Scripture, or \vhofe fignification unto that purpofe was not determined therein, occafion was given unto -endlefs contentions about thetn. The _Grttcians themfelves could not for a long k:afon--agree a– mong thetnfelves vvhether ~ula- and u'r.rf~·a.cn~ \Vere of the fatne fignification or no, both ofthetn denoting eifence and fi1bfl:ance ; or whether they differed in their fignifi– cation; or if they did, vvherein' that di~erence lay, At~;a:s najiM at fid1: affirmed them to be the fame, Vrat. 5. con. Arian. ~nd Epifl. ad African. :Bafil denied tbetn fo to be, or -that they \yere ufed unto the fame purpofe,in the Coun– t.el of Nice, i!pift. 78. 'The like difference inJn:ediately feJ.l out between the Gr.ecians and Latim, about Hyp,oftafis C and
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