5. “We confess one God, alone unmade, alone
eternal, alone unoriginate, alone possessing immortality, alone good,
alone mighty, Creator, Ordainer and Disposer of all things,
unchangeable and unalterable, righteous and good, of the Law and the
Prophets and the New Testament. We believe that this God gave
birth to the Only-begotten Son before all worlds, through Whom He made
the world and all things, that He gave birth to Him not in semblance,
but in truth, following His own will, so that He is unchangeable and
unalterable, God’s perfect Creature, but not as one of His other
creatures, His Handiwork, but not as His other works; not, as
Valentinus maintained, that the Son is a development of the Father,
nor, as Manichæus has declared of the Son, a consubstantial part
of the Father, nor, as Sabellius, who makes two out of One, Son and
Father at once, nor, as Hieracas, a light from a light, or a lamp with
two flames, nor, as if He was previously in being and afterwards born,
or created afresh, to be a Son, a notion often condemned by thyself,
blessed Pope, publicly in the Church, and in the assembly of the
brethren. But, as we have affirmed, we believe that He was
created by the will of God before times and worlds, and has His life
and existence from the Father, Who gave Him to share His own glorious
perfections. For, when the Father gave to Him the inheritance of
all things, He did not thereby deprive Himself of attributes which are
His without origination, He being the source of all things.