turning to the church, to be re-baptized, and re-ordained if they are to become clergymen.
20. Kneeling at prayers on the Lord's Day, and from Easter to Pentecost, disapproved.[1] "On the Lord's Day, and on the days of Pentecost, all shall offer their prayers to God standing."
CHAPTER XIII.
THE LETTER DESPATCHED FROM THE COUNCIL OF NICE TO THE CHURCH OF ALEXANDRIA.—STATEMENT OF WHAT HAD BEEN DECREED AGAINST THE INNOVATIONS OF MELETIUS, AS WELL AS THE COUNCIL'S OPINION OF ARIUS AND HIS PARTICULAR HERESIES.
THE SYNODICAL EPISTLE.
"To the Church of Alexandria, which, by the grace of God, is great and holy, and to the beloved brethren in Egypt, Libya, and Pentapolis, the bishops who have been convened to the great and holy Council of Nice, send greeting in the Lord.
"The great and holy Council of Nice having been convened by the grace of God, and by the appointment of the most religious emperor, Constantine, who summoned us from different provinces and cities, we judge it requisite to inform you by letter what we have debated and examined, decreed and established.
- ↑ Murdock's notes to Mosheim's Institutes, vol. i. Many other canons have been attributed to the Council of Nice by certain writers, but their genuineness is not admitted by Protestants.
"Constantine the Great solemnly confirmed the Nicene Creed, immediately after it had been drawn up by the Council, and he threatend all such as would not subscribe to it with exile. At the conclusion of the Synod he raised all the decrees of the assembly to the position of Laws of the Empire; declared them to be divinely inspired; and, in several edicts still partially extant, he required that they should be most faithfully observed by all his subjects."
