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| | CHURCH FATHERS: De Decretis (Athanasius) |
 | | CHAPTER I. The complaint of the Arians against the Nicene Council; their fickleness; they, are like Jews; their employment of force instead of reason. |
 | | And though in such sundry times and divers manners the Saviour shewed His Godhead and preached the Father to all men, nevertheless, as kicking against the pricks, they contradicted in the language of folly, and this they did, according to the divine proverb, that by finding occasions, they might separate themselves from the truth(3). |
 | | If, the devil having sowed their hearts with this perverseness(6), they feel confidence in their bad inventions, let them defend themselves against the proofs of heresy which have been advanced, and then will be the time to find fault, if they can, with the definition framed against them(7). |
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