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A History of the Church From the Edict of Milan, A.d. 313, to the Coucil of Chalcedon, A.d. 451
A History of the Church From the Edict of Milan Ad 313 to the Coucil of Chalcedon Ad 451 Author:William Bright General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1869 Original Publisher: James Parker Subjects: Church history Religion / Christianity / History Religion / History Religion / Christianity / General Religion / Christian Church / History Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustr... more »ations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER II. From the Council of Nicaea to the Council of Sardica. " Great Athanasius! beaten by wild breath Of calumny, of exile, and of wrong, Thou wert familiar grown with frowning death, Looking him in the face all thy life long, Till thou and he were friends, and thott wert strong." William, Cathedral. TT is a beautiful tradition of the Armenian Churcb, that on -- the return of Aristaces, Gregory the Illuminator received the Nicene Creed with this doxology; " Tea, we glorify Him who was before all ages, adoring the Holy Trinity, and the one only Divinity of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, now and ever, through ages of agea. AmenV These words might well express the joy with which the great majority of Churches would welcome the august confession when announced to them by their chief pastors. It was to them, doubtless, the full utterance of that simple faith in Christ's true Godhead, which had ever lain close to the heart of the Church -- had filled her rude old hymns with majestyb, had burst in broken words from the lips of her martyrs, had kindled her abhorrence of " a God-denying apostasy ," and prompted the heathen sarcasms against her worship of a crucified God. They were deeply conscious of the truth which lias been admirably brought out by a living writer, that this Nicene faith " alone is an entire belief, of which all the elements are in unison; in which is proportion and symmetry,...« less