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Quære 1. Whether Christ sent his Apostles to
preach Metaphysicks
to the unlearned common
people & to their wives & children.
Qu. 2. Whether the word h
ομοουσιος ever
was in any Creed
before the Nicene; or any Creed was
produced by any one B Bishop at
the Council of Nice for authorizing the use of that word.
Qu. 3. Whether the introducing the
use use of that word is not contrary
to the Apostles
rule of holding fast the form of sound
words.
Qu. 4. Whether the use of that word was not pressed upon the
Council of Nice against the inclination of the major part
of the Council
Qu. 5 Whether it was not pressed upon them by the Emperor
Constan
tine ye great a Chatechumen not yet baptized & no member
of the
Council.
Qu. 6 Whether it was not agreed by the Council
yt that
word when applied to ye
Son of God should
signify nothing more then that
Christ was the express image of the
father, & whether
many of the Bishops in pursuance of that interpre
tation of the word then
allowed by the Council, did not in their
subscriptions by way of
caution add
τουτ εστιυ
ομοιουσιος?
Quære 7. Whether Hosius (or whoever translated that Creed into
Latin) did not impose upon the western
Churches by traslating that
ομοουσιος
by the words
unius substantiæ
instead of
consubstantialis
&
whether by that translation the Latin Churches were
not seduced
drawn into
an
opinion that the father & son had one common substance
called by
in the Greek Hypostasis &
whether they did not thereby
give occasion to the western eastern Churches to cry out (in the middle of the
fourth
Century presently after the
Council of Serdica) that the western Churches were become Sabelli
an.
Qu. 8. Whether the Greeks in opposition to this notion
& language did not use
the language of three hypostases, & whether in those days
the word hyposta
did not
signify a substance.
Qu. 9. Whether the Latins did not tax at that time
accuse all those of Arianism who used the language of three hypostases
with Arianism &
thereby charge Arianism upon the Council of Nice without
knowing the true meaning of the
Nicene Creed.
Q. 10. Whether the Latines were not convinced in the Council of
Ariminum that the Council of Nice by the word
ομοουσιος
understood nothing
more then that the son was the express
image of the father. the Acts of the Council of Nice
were not produced for convincing them. And whether
upon
Q. 11 Whether producing the Acts of that
Council for proving this, the
Macedonians
& some others did not accuse
those the
Bishops of hypocrisy who in subscribing
those Acts
had interpreted them by the word
ομοιουσιος
in their subscriptions.
Qu. 11. Quære Whether Athanasius, Hilary & in general the Greeks
& Latines did not from the time of the reign of Iulian
the Apostate ack
nowledge the father
& Son & holy Ghost to be three substances
&
continue to do so till the Schoolmen changed the
signification of the
word hypostasis & brought in the
notion of three persons in one single substance.
Qu. 12. Whether the opinion of the
equality of the three substances was not f
first set
on foot in the reign of Iulian the Apostate
by Athanasius Hilary &c.
Qu. 13. Whether the worship of the Holy Ghost was not
first
first set
on
foot in the middle of the Holy Ghos fourth Century presently after the Council of Serdica.
Qu. 14 Whether the Council of Serdica was not the first Council wch
declared for the doctrine of the
consubstantial Trinity & whether the same
Council did
not decree the supremacy of the Bp of Rome, & affirm
affirm that
there was but one hypostasis of the father son & H.
Ghost.