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 cannot pronounce against them.” Conc. Gen. T. iv. p. 337. And when the Creeds of Nice, and Constantinople, and the letters of Cyril, were read, the Council again exclaimed: “ This is the belief of the orthodox; so we all believe: in this Faith we were baptised: in this Faith we baptise. As the letter of Cyril contains, so we think; so we believed; so we believe." p. 341, 344. The letter from Leo to Flavian, and several passages from more ancient Fathers, in confirmation of the same doctrine, were then read, and again the unanimous voice was heard : “ This is the Faith of our Fathers; the Faith,of the Apostles: we all thus believe; the orthodox so believe; anathema to him that believes otherwise.” P. 368.

After various transactions, and before the Council separated, they addressed an Allocution, as it is termed, to the Emperor, wherein they praise his zeal and that of Leo: they shew that, in their Council, they had trodden in the steps of their predecessors; refuting new errors, as they rose, by new definitions, without innovating in Faith: at great length they explain the doctrine of the Incarnation: they vindicate the celebrated epistle of the Roman Bishop from the charge of novelty, with which it had been attacked, and attest its conformity with the holy Scriptures, the Symbol of Nice, and the doctrine of the Fathers; “ Were men satisfied,” they say, “with the point of Faith, and troubled not the path of rectitude by innovation, it would be the duty of the minis-