EUSEBIUS OF CÆSAREA, G. C. He thus addresses a heretic, who rested his faith on his own interpretation of Scripture: “Where hast thou learnt these things? Who was thine informer? What Bishop? What Councils? What ecclesiastical writer?” Contra Marcellum, L. 11. c. 4. p. 54. - “ Then are his garments divided, and lots cast for his coat, when each one corrupts, and tears the beauty of his word, that is the expressions of the Holy Scriptures, and entertains such opinions as are usually advanced by heretics." Dem. Evang. L. X. p. 506.
St. HILARY, L. C. “ When once they began (the Arians) to make new confessions of faith, belief became the creed of the times, rather than of the gospels. Every year new creeds were made, and men did not keep to that simplicity of faith, which they professed at their baptism. And then what miseries ensued! For soon there were as many creeds as might please each party; and nothing else has been minded, since the Council of Nice, but this creed-making. New creeds have come forth every year, and every month. They have been changed, have been anathematized, and then re-established; and thus by too much enquiring into the faith, there is no faith left.-Recollect that there is not one of the heretics who does not now impudently assert, that all his blasphemies are derived from the Scriptures.They all urge the Scriptures, without any knowledge of them, and without faith, talk of their faith. For it is not by reading, but by comprehending their sense, that the Scriptures should be weighed.” Ad. Constant, L. 11. p. 1227. 1228, 1230.
