A source-book of ancient history - The Search For Mecca

Toleration; Uniformity 535
about the Christians, that every one of those who have
a common wish to observe the Christian worship may
now freely and unconditionally endeavor to observe the
same without any annoyance or disquiet. These things
we thought good to signify in the fullest manner to your
Carefulness, that you might know that we have given
freely and unreservedly to the said Christians authority
to practise their worship. And when you perceive that
we have made this grant to the said Christians, your
Devotion understands that to others also freedom for
their own worship and observance is likewise left open
and freely granted, as befits the quiet of our times, that
every man may have freedom in the practice of whatever
worship he has chosen, for it is not our will that aught be
diminished from the honor of any worship.
VII.
The Nicene Creed
"We believe in one God, Father Almighty, Maker of Established
all things visible and invisible. And in one Lord Jesus council of
Christ, the Son of God, begotten of the Father; only- ''^,'f^^jj
begotten, that is, of the substance of the Father, God of
God, Light of Light, Very God of Very God, begotten Eusebius.
not made, being of one substance with the Father: by Ancient
whom all things were made in heaven and on earth: Who " '''''''^' s^s.
for us men, and for our salvation, came down and was incarnate,
and was made man; He suffered, and rose again
the third day; He ascended into heaven, and is coming
to judge both the quick and the dead. And (we believe)
in the Holy Ghost. The Holy Catholic and Apostolic
Church anathematizes all who say there was a time when
the Son of God w^as not; that before He was begotten He
was not; that He was made out of the non-existent; or