as well as the Latins, and therefore agreed in the Subftantials of Faith, neceffary to Salvation. bus Symbel. And that I have reafon for what I fay, appears from this; that after the Latins were perfwaded, that the Holy Ghost did proceed from the Son, they were far enough from denying Salvation to thofe, who believed otherwife: Pope Leo III. affented to the definition of the Council of Aquifgrane, An. 809. concerning the Proceffion of the Holy Ghost from the Son, and yet would by no means allow, that it fhould be added to the Creed; nor would he deny Salvation to thofe who believed otherwife, but when that Question was asked him, returned this Anfwer; That Voffius de triwhofoever has fubtilty enough to attain to the Know- differt. 3 Cap. ledge of this, or knowing it, will not believe it, can-29, 30. not be faved; but there are many, and this among the reft, deep Mysteries of the Holy Faith, which all cannot reach to, fome by reafon of Age, others for want of understanding, and therefore as we faid before, he that can, and won't, cannot be faved: And therefore at the fame time he commanded the Conftantinopolitan Creed to be hung up at Rome in a Silver Table without the addition of the Filioque: nor Cap 31. can any man tell when this was added to the Creed; however we never read the Greeks were Anathematized upon this account, till Pope Urban II. 1097. Cap. 48. and in the Council of Florence under Eugenius IV. 1438--9. Jofeph the Patriarch of Conftantinople thought this Controverfie between the two Churches might be reconciled, and the Filioque added in a fense very confiftent with the belief of the Greek Church. As for what he adds, that the Greek Church condemned this addition as Heretical, I defire to know, F what Ibid. Ibid. dili what Greek Council did this; Voffius a very But the Comical part is ftill behind; for he fays, The Greeks laugh at Athanafius's menace, and Say he was drunk, when he made the Creed; and for this he refers us to Georgius Scholarius, or Gennadius, who was made Patriarch of Conftantinople by Mahomet, when he had taken that City. I confefs, I have not read all that Gennadius has Writ, and know not where to find this place, and he has not thought fit to direct us: but this I know, that whether Gennadius fays this himfelf, or only reports it as the faying of fome foolish Greeks (for I cannot guess by our Author, which it is) whoever faid it, faid more than is true, for Athanafius neither made the Creed, drunk nor fober, for as moft Learned Men agree, he never made it at all, though it bears his name; but I with, I could fee this place in Gennadi us, for I greatly fufpect our Author; Gennadius being a very unlikely Man to fay any ill thing of 4thanafius upon account of the Filioque, who himself A took took the fide of the Latin Church in this difpute, and as Voffius relates gives Athanafius a very different, and more honourable Character & Tanθείας κήρυξ καὶ ὁμολογητής δ μέγας Αθανάσιος. The Difert. 2. c. 1. great Athanafius the Preacher and Confeffor of Truth. But there is nothing fmites me more than to hear this Arian, or Socinian, or whatever he is, affirm, That the Greeks have clearly and demonftratively proved, that the Holy Spirit is from the Father onZy; For that which is proved clearly and demonftratively, I hope is true, and then this alone is a confutation of his brief Notes, for the Greeks taught, and proved demonftratively, as he fays, that the Holy Spirit fo proceeds from the Father only as to be of the fame Subftance, and One God with the Father. And the Catholick Faith is this. Creed. "Catholick Faith is as much as to fay in plain Notes. "English, the Faith of the whole Church; now in what Age was this, which here follows, the Faith of the "whole Church? The Catholick Faith, I grant, is fò called with rela- Answer. tion to the Catholick Church, whofe Faith it is, and the Catholick Church is the Universal Church, or all the true Churches in the World, which are all but one whole Church, united in Chrift their Head: the Profeffion of the true Faith and Worship of Christ makes a true Church, and all true Churches are the One Catholick Church, whether they be spread over all the World, or flut up in any one corner of it, as at the first Preaching of the Gospel F 2 Notes. Answer. Gospel the Catholick Church was no where but in Judæa. Now as no Church is the Catholick Church of Chrift, how far foever it has fpread itself over the World, unless it profefs the true Faith of Christ, no more is any Faith the Catholick Faith, how univerfally foever it be profeffed, unless it be the true Faith of Chrift; nor does the true Chriftian Faith ceafe to Le Catholick, how few foever there be, who fincerely profefs it. It is down-right Popery to judge of the Catholick Church by its multitudes or large extent, or to judge of the Catholick Faith by the vaft Numbers of its Profeflors: were there but one true Church in the World, that were the Catholick Church, becaufe it would be the whole Church of Chrift on Earth, and were the true Christian Faith professed but in one fuch Church, it would be the Catholick Faith ftill, for it is the Faith of the whole true Church of Christ,the fincere belief and profeffion of which makes a Catholick Church. "Not in the Age of Athanafius himself, who for "this Faith, and for Seditious Practices was banish"ed from Alexandria in Egypt (where he was Bishop) no less than four times; whereof the first "was by Conftantine the Great. What shall be done unto Thee, thou lying Tongue? What Impudence is this, to think to fham the World at this time a day, with fuch ftories as these? when the Cafe of Athanafius is fo well known, or may be, even to English Readers, who will take the pains to read his Life, written with great exactness and fidelity by the learned Dr. Cave. But But when he thinks a second time of it, will he fay, that the Church of God in Athanafius's Age, was not of the fame Faith with him? What thinks he of the Nicene Fathers, who condemned Arius? In which Council Athanafius himself was prefent, and bore a confiderable part, and fo provoked the Arian Faction by his Zeal for the Catholick Faith, and his great skill and dexterity in managing that Cause, as laid the Foundation of all his future Troubles. Will he fay, that Conftantine the Great, who called the Council at Nice in the Caufe of Arius, and was fo zealous an Afferter of the Nicene Faith, bani(hed Athanafius for this Faith? No, his greatest Enemies durft not make his Faith any part of their Acculation, though it was the only Reason of their Malice against him; but they charged him with a great many other Crimes; and that the Reader may the better understand by what Spirit thefe Men were acted, which ftill appears in this Author, I fhall give. a fhort Account of the Story. The Arian Faction headed by Eufebius of Nicomedia, perceiving how impoflible it was to retrieve their loft Cause, while Athanafius was in Credit, and fo great Authority in the Church, having ripened their Defigns against him in their private Cabals, prevail with Conftantine to call a Council at Cæfarea in Paleftine, at which Athanafius did not appear, fufpecting, probably, the partiality of his Judges, who were his declared Enemies. This was represented at Court as a contempt of the Imperial Orders, and another Council was appointed at Tyre, which met Ann. 335. with a peremptory Command for his appearance; of where he firft excepted against the competency his L |