The real Christian, or, A treatise of effectual calling wherein the work of God…

Lactantius, in many Chapters of his fourth Took. De Vera Sapientia, doth manifest his faith plain enough, that Christ is both God and man.

These Authors I have, who all lived before Athanasius, if they say, that Christ was inferior to his Father, or was subject to him, did receive from him, &c. Who deny this? And doth not the Scripture say the same, considering the Humane Nature of Christ, the Offices he undertook, the state of a Servant which he underwent; we ean easily tell how to understand these things, and yet believe he was true God, as the Scriptures have declared, and these Ancient Writers have believed. These things considered make me believe the Truth of what Athanasius reports, ¹That in the Council of Nice all the Bishops, as many as were there present, when they heard Arrius Doctrine concerning Christ, they stopped their ears, and all of them with a common suffrage condemned that Heresy, and Anathematized it, saying it was strange to, and diverse from the Faith of the Church. So it appears by the Quotations I have given out of the Ancient Writers from the Apostles days, whence Athanasius, and that Council were not the first that broached the Doctrine which we maintain as Orthodox; but they maintained the same Doctrine which ⟨image 20⟩the Prophets and Apostles (as Bradwardin offers to justify) had taught.

These Authors I have, who all lived before Athanasius, if they say, that Christ was inferiour to his Father, or was subject to him, did receive from him, &c. Who deny this? And doth not the Soripture say the same, considering the Humane Nature of Christ, the Offices he undertook, the state of a Servant which he underwent; we ean easily tell how to understand these things, and yet believe he was true God, as the Scriptures have declared, and these Ancient Writers have believed. These things considered make me believe the Truth of what Athanasius reports, ¹That in the Council of Nice all the Bishops, as many as were there present, when they heard Arrius Doctrine concerning Christ, they stopped their ears, and all of them with a common suffrage condemned that Heresie, and Anathematized it, saying it was strange to, and diverse from the Faith of the Church. So it appears by the Quotations I have given out of the Ancient Writers from the Apostles dayes, whence Athanasius, and that Council were not the first that broached the Doctrine which we maintain as Orthodox; but they maintained the same Doctrine which