The Schism, which the establishing of a new Bishop occasioned in the Church of _Antioch_, was not confined to that alone, but extended to most other Churches, over which _Apollinaris_ appointed Bishops of his own Sect, who held separate Assemblies, practised different Rites, and, instead of the sacred Hymns commonly sung at Divine Service by the rest of the Church, introduced Canticles composed by their Leader, and containing the Substance of his Doctrine[1092]. The many perplexed Questions and Difficulties, which he and his Emissaries were daily starting about the Incarnation, bred such Confusion in the Minds of Men, that many began to question the Truth of that Mystery[1093]. The Objections they moved against our Saviour’s taking Flesh, and being born of the Virgin _Mary_, seemed calculated merely to raise improper Ideas, and sully the Thoughts of chaste Minds; for they themselves held his Body to be coeval with the Divinity, and to have only been conveyed into the World by means of the Virgin _Mary_[1094]. Their Doctrine was applauded and received by many, and few who read their Books were content with, or kept to the plain and antient Doctrine of the Church[1095]. [Sidenote: Basil _recurs to the Western Bishops_;] _Basil_ therefore, and the other orthodox Bishops in the East, to put a Stop the more effectually to the growing Evil, not only declaimed against it in all their Writings, but dispatched the Two Presbyters _Dorotheus_ and _Sanctissimus_ with Letters to _Damasus_, and the other Western Bishops, intreating them to condemn without Delay the Doctrine of _Apollinaris_, and _Apollinaris_ himself, since he had at last openly declared against the Church, and owned himself the Author of the new Sect[1096]. [Sidenote: _who condemn the Doctrine of_ Apollinaris, _and depose him with_ Vitelis _and_ Timotheus.] In Compliance with this Request, a great Council was convened at _Rome_ the following Year 378. in which _Apollinaris_ was not only condemned with great Solemnity, but deposed, with his Two favourite Disciples, _Vitalis_ and _Timotheus_; the former Bishop of the _Apollinarists_ at _Antioch_, and the latter at _Berytus_ in _Phœnicia_[1097]. By the same Council it was defined, that _Jesus_ was true Man, and true God; and whoever maintained or asserted any thing to be wanting either to his Humanity or Divinity, was declared an Enemy to the Church[1098]. _Vitalis_ had deceived _Damasus_, as I have observed above, by a Confession of Faith, in which, under equivocal Terms, he had artfully concealed his Heresy. The Bishop of _Rome_ therefore, now undeceived, caused the Confession he had formerly approved of to be anathematized by the Council, together with its Author, exerting himself, says _Gregory Nazianzen_, with so much the more Vigour against them, as they had formerly taken Advantage of his Candour and Sincerity to impose upon him[1099]. _Gregory Nazianzen_ therefore supposes, that the Pope could be imposed upon in a Matter