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

§. 42. LV. Whether the Council at Seleucia shall be taken for one of it self, or but for part of that at Ariminum, though far distant, I leave to the Reader. But here the Heterodox Bishops carried all, but so as to divide among themselves; One party called Acacians were for forbearing the word [substance.] The Semiarians condemned both them and the Arians, and were for [Like substances.] They excommunicated and deposed many Arians, who appealed to the Emperor, and craved yet another Synod. So that the further he went for concord, the further he was from it, the Bishops dividing and subdividing more and more; and the Emperors and Bishops, by diversity of Judgment, and by Heresy, became now to the Church what Heathen Persecutors had been heretofore.

§. 42. LV. Whether the Council at Seleucia shall be taken for one of it self, or but for part of that at Ariminum, though far distant, I leave to the Reader. But here the Heterodox Bishops carried all, but so as to divide among themselves; One party called Acacians were for forbearing the word [substance.] The Semiarians condemned both them and the Arians, and were for [Like substances.] They excommunicated and deposed many Arians, who appealed to the Emperour, and craved yet another Synod. So that the further he went for concord, the further he was from it, the Bishops dividing and subdividing more and more; and the Emperours and Bishops, by diversity of Judgment, and by Heresie, became now to the Church what Heathen Persecutors had been heretofore.

Sulpitius Severus tells us, that one thing that drew many to subscribe to the Arian and Semiarian Creeds, was a certain liberty of their own Additions or Interpretations, which was granted the Orthodox to draw them in. [Subscribe in your own sense. q. d.] And so conditional subscriptions quieted their Consciences, and when the Arians thought they had the Victory,¹ and had made the rest Conformists, it proved otherwise, for they did not in sense and with approbation subscribe.

Sulpitius Severus tells us, that one thing that drew many to subscribe to the Arian and Semiarian Creeds, was a certain liberty of their own Additions or Interpretations, which was granted the Orthodox to draw them in. [Subscribe in your own sence. q. d.] And so conditional subscriptions quieted their Consciences, and when the Arians thought they had the Victory,