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A49896	An historical vindication of The naked Gospel recommended to the University of Oxford.	Le Clerc, Jean, 1657-1736.	1690 (1690)	Wing L816; ESTC R21019	43,004	72

fashion The Arian Bishops offended with this Book had begun to examin it when they were as yet at Jerusalem but having been obliged to pass over to Constantinople they had only enjoyned Marcellus to alter his Opinion according to the Stile of that time He promist he would burn his Book but having not done it and even refusing to do it his affair was reassumed at Constantinople and he was deposed Eusebius of Cesarea wrote two Books expresly against him wherein he criticizes his work and three others which he entituled of Ecclesiastick Theology wherein he establisht the opinions which he thought Orthodox touching the Divinity and refuted those of Marcellus and divers other Hereticks Marcellus was afterwards (a) Socr. lib. II. 20. Sozom lib. II. cap. 29. reestablisht in the Synod of Sardica because he affirmed his expressions had been misunderstood and being an Enemy to the Arians he insinuated Himself into the Friendship of Athanasius who perhaps was surpriz'd by the Equivocal Expressions used by Marcellus It 's certain that if we may judge of him by the Fragments which Eusebius cites he scarcely knew what he would say himself or else he conceal'd his Opinions under obscure terms lest he should fall into trouble After that Athanasius had been sent into Exile (a) id lib. I. c. 27. seq Arius had returned to Alexandria but his presence being likely to cause a disorder by reason of the great number of those who followed the sentiments of Athanasius the Emperor recalled this Priest to Constantinople and to assure himself entirely of his belief of which the Orthodox still doubted he offered him the Nicene Creed to sign which he did without ballancing and moreover swore he was of that opinion A report ran that he had hid under his Arm a Writing which contain'd his Opinion and that he barely swore he believ'd what he had wrote but there is no great certainty to be expected in what his Enemies say of him Perhaps he thought like Eusebius of Cesarea that one might give to the words of the Creed a sense which amounted to his sentiment although he wisht they had made use of other terms What the Fathers of Nice said more than he consisting in in something absolutely incomprehensible perhaps moreover he counted that for nothing However Alexander Bishop of Constantinople refused to receive him into Communion although the Emperor had ordered him to do it and a great number of Bishops and of the People urged him to it Besides this the Arian Bishops were preparing to hold a Council to examin afresh the question agitated at Nice and had markt a day in which they were to meet to discourse about it and to conduct Arius into the Church maugre Alexander In this extremity knowing not how to maintain his refusal the History tells us that he shut himself up in a Church call'd Peace and set himself very devoutly to pray to God not that he would convert Arius or that he would discover to himself the Truth but that if the opinion of Arius was true he himself might not see the day set apart to discourse of it or that if his own belief were true Arius who was the cause of so great mischiefs might be punisht for his Infidelity A Prayer so little charitable and whence might be seen that this Bishop was more concern'd for his reputation than the Truth fail'd not of being heard seeing that the next morning which was Sunday or the same day at night as Arius went to the Church accompani'd by those of his Party or in some other place for the Historians vary in passing by the Market of Constantin he had so great occasion to go to ease himself that he was forced to betake himself to the common Privies where instead of finding ease he evacuated his Bowels and thus died suddenly Since that time Passengers were commonly shew'd these places of easement and no body dared sit down on the same place where Arius sat 'T is said that a Rich Arian to abolish the memory of it bought afterwards this Place of the Publick and there built an House It 's thus that Rufinus Socrates and Sozomen relate the last Events of the life of Arius But St. Athanasius says that (a) in Epst ad Serapionem having been recalled by the solicitations of those of his Party he offered his Confession of Faith to the Emperor and swore that he did not believe any thing else after which those that protected him would introduce him into the Church at his going out of the Emperors Palace but that he died without having been received into Communion (b) De. Valvis A Learned Man is of Opinion in this matter That the Arius who was received into Communion at Jerusalem was a Priest of the Party of the famous Arius and not he himself who had already died out of the Communion of the Church for without this it must be said that Athanasius has been mistaken But were it granted him that this Bishop was mistaken in speaking of a Man whom he every moment orewhelmed with injuries it cannot be found strange especially not having been at Constantinople then when what he relates must have hapned One may farther say that Athanasius has related by way of abridgment and little exactly what he had heard say of Arius and that he regarded him as an excommunicated Person having been only received by a Council whose Authority Athanasius would not acknowledge it consisting principally of Persons whose opinions had been anathematized at Nice It is far more natural thus to interpret this passage of Athanasius than to reject wholly as false an History so circumstanc'd as that of the latter years of the life of Arius in respect of certain facts which the Historians which we have already cited had no interest to alter Arius being dead apparently of a sudden death peradventure by Poyson which may have given occasion to the Tragical manner in which the Historians mention it the Disputes started on his occasion dyed not with him (a) Soz●m lib. II. c. 31. Those who were of Athanasius's Party at Alexandria besought of God his return in the Publick Prayers and ceased not to importune the Emperor to make him be recalled Constantin was oblig'd to write to the People of that Town a Letter wherein he upbraided them for their Lightness and Folly and enjoyns the Ecclesiasticks to remain quiet and wherein he declares he would not recall Athanasius whom he treats as a seditious Person and one who had been condemned by a Council He answers likewise to Anthony the Hermit That he could not slight the Judgment of the Council of Tyre because that supposing some among the Bishops were passionate yet it is not probable that so great a number of Wise and Learned Bishops should all of 'em act by passion and that Athanasius was an Insolent Proud and Troublesom Fellow Constantin wrote these Letters but a little time before his death which hapned in the year 337 the circumstances of which may be seen in his life writ by Eusebius Yet we must remember that this is rather a Panegyrick than an uninterest History whence it is that he says nothing of the death of his two Wives and the eldest Son of this Emperor whom he had put to death thro' jealousy or revenge Eusebius was always of the Arians side Yet Socrates has undertaken to justifie him (b) Socr. lib. II. c. 21. and so do's Dr. Cave seem to do thinking himself thereto obliged thro' Christian Charity whereas the love of truth should oblige all Historians never to vary from i● But it is this pretended charity which extends it self only to Fathers which are respected as Orthodox which has been the cause that we have in a manner only Panegyricks of the Ancients wherein their defects are ever supprest when they cannot be covered with the mask of some Vertues Eusebius as it appears by the conduct he held at the Council of Nice was a dextrous Person who did not scruple to subscribe to terms which were not pleasing to him provided he could expound them in a sense according to his mind tho' little conformable to that of those who set them up For in fine a Man must shut his Eyes touching what he says in his Letter to the Church of Cesarea not to see that he understood otherwise the terms of the Symbol than Athanasius did He was a great admirer of Origen several of whose opinions may be seen in his life he lived not long after Constantin for he dyed in the year 340. St. Jerome in several places calls him Signifer et Princeps Arianorum Speaking of the great Eusebius Bishop of Cesarea Athanasius in his banishment wrote a Creed at Rome which he presented to a Council sitting there yet that Creed was not publish'd till above three hundred years after in the Toletan Council as Baronius himself owns neither can any one tell us what that was for that which passes commonly amongst us under the name of the Athanasian Creed and is read in our Churches was drawn up by God knows who as Vossius de Tribus Symbolis Camerarius and Ell. du Pin in his B. des Aut. Eccles do ingenuously confess For how durst Athanasius make a new Creed after the Nicene Besides no Writer of that time mentions it no not Athanasius himself It seems to have been broach't above 600 years after that age in which time a profound ignorance had overspread Christendom however the Eastern Churches would never own it no not at this day See more in the above mentioned learned Authors Constantin being dead Eusebius Bishop of Nicomedia a refin'd Courtier soon made himself Master of Constantius and all the Grandees of the Palace in whom he rooted his beloved Arianism being assisted by Constantia's Priest the Empress was soon gain'd over and the Roman Empire became for the most part Arian Athanasius being condemn'd not only by many Eastern but also by several great Western Councils Afterwards they fell so to Logger-heads that the Western Church excommunicated the Eastern and the Eastern return'd the same Complement upon the Western and there we 'll leave them FINIS