Church-history of the government of bishops and their councils abbreviated including the chief part…

§. 18. And because Papal Approbation is made by the Papists the mark of an unerring and infallible Council, note that even the Arian Council of Syrmium was expressly approved by Pope Liberius in his Exile, as you may see in Hilary, ibid. p. 426, 427. saying, [Itaque amoto Athanasio à communion omnium nostrûm, cujus nec Epistolia à me suscipienda sunt, dico me parem cum omnibus vobis, & cum Universis Episcopis orientalibus, seu per universas provincias pacem & unitatem habere: Nam ut verius sciatis me verâ fide per hanc Epistolam ea loqui, Dominus & frater me•s communis Demo•ilus, qui dignatus est pro suâ benevolentiâ fidem & catholicam exponere quae Syrmium à pluribus fratribus & co-episcopis nostris tractata, exposita, & suscepta est, ab omnibus qui in praesenti fuerunt, hanc ego libenti animo suscep• ▪ in nullo contradixi; consensum accommodavi, hanc sequor, haec à me tenetur; sane petendum credidi Sanctitatem Vestram, quiae tam pervidetis in omnibus me vobis consentaneum esse, dignemini communi auxilio ac studio laborare, qu• tenus de exilio dimittar, & ad sedem, quae mihi divinitus credita est, revertar.] In reciting of which Hilary thrice saith [Anathema tibi, Liberi praevaricator]—If they say that Liberius did this in his Exile through fear or suffering, I answer, his Sufferings were small; and Hilary annexeth another of his Epistles to the Arian Bishops, in which he sweareth or calleth God himself to witness, that it is not for his Sufferings which are not great, but for the Peace of the Church, of which he knew those Bishops to be Lovers, and which is better than Martyrdom, that he did what he did.

§. 18. And because Papal Approbation is made by the Papists the mark of an unerring and infallible Council, note that even the Arian Council of Syrmium was expresly approved by Pope Liberius in his Exile, as you may see in Hilary, ibid. p. 426, 427. saying, [Itaque amoto Athanasio à communione omnium nostrûm, cujus nec Epistolia à me suscipienda sunt, dico me parem cum omnibus vobis, & cum Vniversis Episcopis orientalibus, seu per universas provincias pacem & unitatem habere: Nam ut verius sciatis me verâ fide per hanc Epistolam ea loqui, Dominus & frater me•s communis Demo•ilus, qui dignatus est pro suâ benevolentiâ fidem & catholicam exponere quae Syrmium à pluribus fratribus & co-episcopis nostris tractata, exposita, & suscepta est, ab omnibus qui in praesenti fuerunt, hanc ego libenti animo suscep in nullo contradixi; consensum accommodavi, hanc sequor, haec à me tenetur; sane petendum credidi Sanctitatem Vestram, quiae tam pervidetis in omnibus me vobis consentaneum esse, dignemini communi auxilio ac studio laborare, qu tenus de exilio dimittar, & ad sedem, quae mihi divinitus credita est, revertar.] In reciting of which Hilary thrice saith [Anathema tibi, Liberi praevaricator]—If they say that Liberius did this in his Exile through fear or suffering, I answer, his Sufferings were small; and Hilary annexeth another of his Epistles to the Arian Bishops, in which he sweareth or calleth God himself to witness, that it is not for his Sufferings which are not great, but for the Peace of the Church, of which he knew those Bishops to be Lovers, and which is better than Martyrdom, that he did what he did.