Popery condemned by scripture and the fathers - End Time Deception

SCRIPTURE AND THE FATHERS, 81
of the church. The African bishops upon this
took the alarm, and exclaimed against his procedure
as an open violation of the canons.
Zosfmus
knew that it would be in vain for him to
appeal to the Council of Sardica m vindication
of his conduct, as that Council had never been
acknowledged in Africa ; and therefore he
judged it a most prudent expedient to palm its
decrees upon these bishops, as the canons of
Nice. To carry on this imposture, Faustinus,
a bishop, with Philippus and Assellus, both
presbyters, were dispatched into Africa. In
their instructions,
they were commanded to require
of the African bishops an observance of
these canons ; and also, that they would not
communicate with Urbanus, unless
he received
Apiarius as formerly.
On the arrival of these legates, a Council
was immediately called, and their instructions
read. These canons were next compared with
many copies of the canons of Nice, to which
they were found not to bear the most distant resemblance.
The legates, however, continuing
to' affirm,
with the most consummate effrontery,
that the canons produced by them were genuine,
the Council agreed to observe them till a more
particular inquiry should be made. But, as
this was an affair of general concernm.ent, and
only a few bishops present, they agreed to call