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 seamless garment, which the murderers of Christ would not divide, these men have dared to rip asunder.” Apud Theodoret. L. 1. c. iv. p. 10. Edit. Cantab. 1720.

COUNCIL OF NICE, G. C.-“But as to those persons, who are found not to have declined to any schism, and to have kept themselves uncontaminated within the Catholic and Apostolic Church, they have a right to ordain,” &c.Gen. Conc. T. ii. p. 250. Edit. Paris. 1671.

CONSTANTINE THE GREAT, who himself had called the Bishops together at Nice in Bithynia, in a letter to the Bishops who were not present at the council, says: “What I chiefly proposed to myself was, that one belief, sincere affection, and uniformity of worship towards the Almighty Being, should be maintained.” Ibid. p. 263.-In another letter to the Church of Alexandria, where Arius had first broached his new doctrines, the same Emperor attests, that “ more than three hundred Bishops, who were remarkable for their modesty and learning, proclaimed at Nice, with one voice, one and the same Faith; and that Arius alone was found to dissent from it.” Ibid. p. 62. And yet in a letter to Constantine, this heretic professes his belief, “ in the one Catholic Church of God, reaching from one extremity of the earth to the other.” Ibid. p. 464.

EUSEBIUS, G. C.-Speaking of the deaths of the Martyrs of Lyons, he says: “Having loved peace, and recommended the same to us, they went to God in peace, leaving behind them, not grief to their mother, not discord to their brethren, but joy, and peace, and concord, and charity to all.” Hist. Eccl. L. v. c. 11. p. 212. Edit. Cantab. 1720.--" Then are his garments divided, and lots cast for his coat, when each