Canon II.
Of Preaching the Trinity.
The
whole Council said: By
the favour of God, by a unanimous confession the Church’s faith
which through us is handed down should be confessed in this glorious
assembly before anything else; then the ecclesiastical order of each is
to be built up and strengthened by the consent of all. That the
minds of our brethren and fellow bishops lately elevated may be
strengthened, those things should be propounded which we have certainly
received from our fathers, as the unity of the Trinity, which we retain
consecrated in our senses, of the Father, and of the Son, and of the
Holy Ghost, which has no difference, as we say,
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so
we shall instruct the people of God. Moreover by all the bishops
lately promoted it was said: So we openly confess, so we hold, so
we teach, following the Evangelic faith and your teaching.
Notes.
Ancient Epitome of Canon II.
No difference is recognised or taught by the decrees of
the Council of Nice between the Persons of the Holy Trinity.
This canon, or rather introduction, is taken from Canon
j., of the Council of Carthage held under Genethlius,
a.d.
387 or 390.
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Or “have
learned.”
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In assigning these
canons to the several synods that adopted them, I have simply followed
Hefele.