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

§. 26. XL. Anno 344. Another Council was held at Antioch, by those called Arians by some, Reconcilers by others, and Orthodox and Catholics by themselves; in which they renounce Arius and his sayings, but yet leave out the word [Greek or Hebrew] [of one substance.] This they did in a new-made Creed; fitted purposely, as they said, to reconcile; as others, to deceive: To which end four had been made before, and not availed.

§. 26. XL. Anno 344. Another Council was held at Antioch, by those called Arians by some, Reconcilers by others, and Orthodox and Catholicks by themselves; in which they renounce Arius and his sayings, but yet leave out the word 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 [of one substance.] This they did in a new-made Creed; fitted purposely, as they said, to reconcile; as others, to deceive: To which end four had been made before, and not availed.

§. 27. XLI. A Council at Milan examined this Creed, and rejected it, for leaving out [of the same substance] and because the Nicene Creed was sufficient.

§. 28. XLII. The next is called an Universal Council, of 376 Bishops at Sardica, which cleared Athanasius, Marcellus, and others. And yet Augustine, and many others, reject this Council. It hath divers good Canons, but one among them for Appeals to Rome; which three Popes ⟨p. 56⟩urged to Aurelius, Augustine and the other Africans, as a Canon of the Council of Nice: And whenas neither any of these Popes, nor the African Bishops once took notice that those words were in the Council of Sardica; the Papists answer, 1. That the Africans knew not of this Councils Canons, but had lost them, (though Gratus Bishop of Carthage was one.) 2. And that the Popes took the Canons of Sardica to be but Explications of the Nicene, and fo they were but as one. (But why did they give no such answer?)