Volume 1

Clavis calendaria; or, a compendious analysis of the calendar: illustrated with ecclesiastical, historical, and classical anecdotes / By John Brady.

  • Brady, John, -1814.
Date:
1815
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Credit: Clavis calendaria; or, a compendious analysis of the calendar: illustrated with ecclesiastical, historical, and classical anecdotes / By John Brady. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ters, that there was an Unity in the Trinity, which Arius, a learned Christian, instantly con- tradicted as unscriptural and prophane; and to this unhappy controversy is to be ascribed, the foundation of innumerable of those schisms? which, in after-ages, so much disgraced and in- jured the Christian religion. Constantine the Great exerted his powerful influence to suppress these dissensions, the evil consequences of which his acute mind readily anticipated; he chided the Bishop for agitating subtle questions, and Arius for replying to them ; alleging, that such hidden mysteries ought never to have been dis- cussed, or, if unhappily touched upon, to have been immediately stifled in the most profound , silence. Alexander, however, still persevered; and convening a Council of Egyptian Bishops, ex- communicated Arius and his adherents ; while other Councils, espousing the cause of Arius, re- stored him to the communion of the church, and declared him perfectly orthodox in his sentiments: Tumults of the most calamitous nature, naturally ensued from these adverse decrees, and Christi- anity was thus exposed to the contempt and ri- dicule of its Heathen opponents, who even car- ried their derision to the extent of making these circumstances of disagreement, subjects for thea- trical merriment! Constantine, shocked and offended at the contumely to which our holy faith was reduced, instantly summoned a Council