The Dialogues of Socrates

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1707 Excerpt: ...because the Generation of the Son is above 4 human Comprehension or Knowledge; ad 4 ding that the Father is greater than theSon 4 in Honour, Dignity and Godhead; and that 4 the Son is subjected unto the Father together 4 with all those Creatures which the Father has put in subjection under the Son that the Fa4 ther is from Everlasting that the Son is the 4 Begotten of the Father, God of God, Light 4 of Light j that he took Flesh of the Substance: This last was tUfo Mark's Handy work; Valesius suf poses i: mis nrit in Greek. See bis Second Note »ftf Swr. L. 2-c se.. of the Virgin Mary; and that theDoctrinof the Trinity is the very Root and Foundation, '.of the Christian Faith, and ought to be molt religiously receiv'd and eternally maintain'd, ' according to the Enumeration in that Text, Go and baptize all Nations in the Name or the Father and of the Son and of the Holy, ' Ghost. This new Scheme of Faith was agreed upon in the S.L. 4. c. 6J Emperour's Presence. And they were instant with Photims to subscribe it,promising, if he would do so,and renounce his own Opinion, to restore him to his Bilhoprick, but instead of accepting this Pro posal, he challenges them to a Disputations which being admitted, and Basil of Ancyr engaging him on the part of the Council, he is after a great many Words and Arguments oa both ides, in the Presence of the Bishops and of several of the Lay-Nobility whom the Emperour had sent thither, confuted, and again condemn'd, and then banifli'd. In his Exile he employ'd his time in Writing, and compos'd, among others, his Book against all Heresies, where, and every where else, he allows ao Creed but his own to be Orthodox. Some time after, tbsSirmian Bilhops perceiving their new Creed contained several Inconsistencies and Contradic...