truth; but yours for error: For, the_ Arian _will say so too. But, whether they do or no, yet it is plain that they may both say so: and if they do, then we do not find the truth out by the conduct and decision of a General Council; but we approve this General, because upon other accounts we believe that what is there defined is true. And therefore_ S. Austin's _way here is best_, Neque ego Nicænum Concilium, neque tu Ariminense, _&c. both sides pretend to General Councils: that which both equally pretend to, will help neither; therefore let us go to Scripture._ And _p._ 32.----_What is the reason_ (saith he of Councils in General) _that some Councils are partly condemned: the Council of_ Sardis, _that in_ Trullo, _those of_ Frankford, Constance, _and_ Basil? _but that every man and every Church accepts the Councils as far as they please, and no further? The Greeks receive but seven General Councils, the Lutherans six, the Eutychians three, Nestorians two_, &c.----Pro captu lectoris habent sua fata. _It is as every one likes._ I spare to tell you what he saith, _p._ 26.--_That in the first General Council of_ Jerusalem, _which was the first precedent, and ought to be the true measure of the rest, the Apostles were the Presidents, and the Presbyters Assistants, but the Church_ [viz. _the converted brethren and the Laity_, see p. 36.] _was the Body of the Council, and were Parties in the Decree_, quoting _Acts_ 15, 22, 23. _and that we can have no other warrant of an authentick Council than this._ 2. Though it be shewed a lawful General Council, representing the whole Church (as it ought, if such) yet what obligation can there lye upon me of consenting to it? since it may _err_ even in _Fundamentals_, if it be not universally accepted, as indeed this Council was not, for several Bishops there were, that were dissenters in the Council, and many more afterward.[42] 3. Were it universally accepted; yet unless you can shew me by some means, that this point wherein I differ from its judgment, is a fundamental or necessary point to salvation, both it, and the Catholick Church also that accepts it may err therein. 4. The judgment of this Council seems justly declinable also on this account. That whereas the _Guides_ of the _Church_, many years before this Council were divided in their opinion, _Alexander_ Patriarch of _Alexandria_, and _Hosius_ a Favorite of the Emperor heading one party; and _Arius_ and the Bishops adhering to him, whom I mentioned formerly[43], heading another, and whereas afterward, in the prosecution of this difference, both the foresaid _Alexander_ in one _Provincial Council_ held in _Egypt_, and _Hosius_ sent thither by the Emperor in another, had there condemned _Arius_, and his Confederates; yet so it was ordered, that in this General Council assembled for an equal hearing and decision of this Controversie of these two professed Enemies to the other party, the one (_Hosius_) was appointed to sit as