Footnote 429: Cyp. ep. 70. Footnote 430: Idem, ep. 71. Footnote 431: Idem, ep. 73. Footnote 432: Idem, ep. 72. Footnote 433: Idem ib. Footnote 434: Idem, ep. 73. Footnote 435: Idem, ib. Footnote 436: Hier. in Luc. c. 9. Footnote 437: Aug. bapt. l. 4. c. 8. Footnote 438: Concil. p. 397. Footnote 439: Cyp. ep. 74. Euseb. l. 7. c. 3. Aug. bapt. l. 2. c. 7. Footnote 440: Cyp. ep. 74. Footnote 441: Aug. de bapt. l. 1. c. 7. 18. & l. 2. c. 8. 15. Footnote 442: Cyp. con. p. 397. Footnote 443: Idem ib. Aug. de bapt. l. 3. c. 3. Footnote 444: Cyp. conc. p. 403. Footnote 445: Cyp. ep. 75. Footnote 446: Euseb. l. 7. c. 5. Footnote 447: Aug. bapt. l. 5. c. 25. Footnote 448: Euseb. l. 7. c. 5. Footnote 449: Cyp. ep. 75. Footnote 450: Cyp ib. Footnote 451: Id. ib. Footnote 452: Buch. cycl. p. 297. Footnote 453: Pears. annal. Cyp. p. 57, 58. Footnote 454: Bar. ad ann. 259. Footnote 455: Anast. in vit. Vict. Footnote 456: Buch. cycl. p. 267. Footnote 457: Anast. c. 95. Footnote 458: Boll. Pont. p. 36. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- VALERIAN, SIXTUS II. GALLIENUS. _Twenty-third_ BISHOP _of_ Rome. [Sidenote: Year of Christ 257. Dionysius _of_ Alexandria _interposes in the famous Dispute_.] _Stephen_ being dead, _Sixtus_ or _Xystus_ II. a Deacon of the Church of _Rome_, was chosen to succeed him. As the late Dispute was not yet ended, _Dionysius_ Bishop of _Alexandria_ no sooner heard of his Promotion, than he began to press him with great Earnestness to relinquish the wild Pretensions of his Predecessor, and concur with the other Bishops in restoring Peace and Tranquillity to the Church[459]. He writ Three Letters to him on the same Subject, whereof the last was from _Dionysius_ and the whole Church of _Alexandria_, to _Sixtus_ and the whole Church of _Rome_[460]. He writ likewise to _Dionysius_ and _Philemon_, two Presbyters of the Church of _Rome_, whom we have mentioned above, and who upon _Stephen_’s Death seem to have abandoned his Party; for _Dionysius_ of _Alexandria_, in his first Letter to _Sixtus_, writes, That these two Presbyters had been formerly of _Stephen_’s Opinion[461], a plain Indication that they were not then. The Bishop of _Alexandria_ had at last the Satisfaction to see his pious Endeavours crowned with Success; for we find no farther Mention of this Dispute till it was revived by the _Donatists_. [Sidenote: _Peace restored to the Church by his means._] In what manner it ended, we are no-where told; but it is manifest from the Writers of those Times, that the _African_ and _Asiatic_ Bishops continued the same Practice of baptizing Heretics, till it was condemned by the two great Councils, of _Arles_ in 314. and of _Nice_ in 325[462]. Whence we may well conclude,