the rest[900], assure us, that _Constantius_ _changed at last the Faith of the Western Bishops into Impiety_. Of this deplorable Change they give us the following Account. [Sidenote: _Their Deputies ordered to_ Nice _in_ Thrace;] The _Arians_, taking Occasion from the last Letter of the Bishops at _Rimini_ to incense _Constantius_ against them, prevailed upon him to order their Deputies to a City in _Thrace_, known at that Time by the Name of _Nice_, but formerly called _Ostudizus_, and placed by _Sanson_ a few Leagues to the East of _Adrianople_. This Place they chose, that the Symbol, which they designed to impose upon them, might be confounded by the ignorant People with that of the great Council of _Nice_ in _Bithynia_[901]. The Deputies no sooner arrived there, than a Confession of Faith was proposed to them intirely agreeable to the last made at _Sirmium_, except that in this new Creed the Son was declared _like to the Father_, without the Addition of the Words _in all Things_. This they rejected at first with great Resolution and Intrepidity; but the _Arians_ were no less resolute, and therefore left nothing unattempted they could think of to carry their Point[902]. But finding Hope and Fear, Threats and Promises, equally ineffectual, they proceeded at last to open Force and Violence[903]. What Kind of Violence was employed against them, the Author does not tell us; but _Marcellinus_ and _Faustinus_ ascribe their retracting what they had declared to be holy, and approving what they had condemned as impious, to the Love of their Sees, and the Dread they were in of being driven from them[904]. [Sidenote: _where they sign the_ Sirmian _Confession_.] Be that as it will, it is certain, that they yielded at last; that they accepted and signed, without the least Limitation or Restriction, the above-mentioned Confession of Faith; consented to the Suppression of the Word _Consubstantial_; declared void and null all the Acts and Proceedings of the Council of _Rimini_; anathematized, as heretical, all Opinions contrary to the Doctrine contained in the said Confession; and, finally, admitted to their Communion _Ursacius_, _Valens_, _Germinius_, and _Caius_, whom they had not long before deposed as Heretics[905]. _Restitutus_, Bishop of _Carthage_, and one of the most eminent Prelates at that Time in the Church, signed the first, and the other Deputies after him, according to the Dignity of their Sees. The Emperor, transported with Joy at the News of their Compliance, which he looked upon as a signal Victory, gave them immediately Leave to return to _Rimini_. At the same time he wrote to _Taurus_, charging him anew not to suffer the Bishops to depart till they had all signed the same Confession of Faith, and impowering him to send into Exile such as by their Obstinacy should distinguish themselves above the rest, provided they were not above Fifteen in Number[906]. [Sidenote: Constantius