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 gathered by Constantine's appointment, in the year 325, after a most cruel and bloody persecution wherein many of those who opposed it, and were therefore called the Orthodox, suffered martyrdom.

Arians say that God is one absolute being, that Jesus Christ is the first and best of all the creation of God-and the Holy Ghost only an attribute of Deity.

They are so called from James Arminius, divinity reader in Leyden who in the year 1605, published and maintained five articles, which have occasioned great trouble to the church of God: being eagerly maintained by his followers, called remonstrants. The five articles are concerning predestination, redemption, God's grace, free-will, and the perseverance of the saints.

So called from one Faustus Socinus, an Italian of Stena. They place all their religion in the old condemned heresies; following their master, a most vile heretic.

Amongst other things, they hold the doctrine of man's free-will; and say, that original sin is nothing more than the power of