Page 29 - Countering Trinitarian Arguments With Historical Reference

The Church of our Fathers by R. H. Bainton, 1950, page 46. “The day was to come when the *Nicene [*Constantine’s Trinitarian] party won completely and then the [Roman] emperors, who wished to prevent any more such quarrels, [between Arius and Athanasius] decreed that one who denied the Trinity should be put to death. This law was later to be used against the *Unitarians. [*Or a better term Jesus Name One God Christians] At the earlier time, however, the bishops were horrified that truth [or new Catholic Traditions including the non inspired Trinity] should be defended by the shedding of blood.” [Mass murder took place in the name of the Trinity and Trinitarian baptism!]
The Church of our Fathers by R. H. Bainton, 1950, page 63. “...The other great achievement of the [Catholic] emperor Justinian was the gathering up and sorting out of the laws of the Roman Empire [ca 500 AD] into one system called The Code of Justinian. Parts of this law had to do with the Christian religion and the Church. The code says that any who refuse to believe in the Trinity and any who repeat baptism shall be put to death...The law by which they [the Donatists, Arians and Jesus Name people] were punished was aimed not at their conduct but at their belief. Inasmuch as they considered themselves to be the only true Church, they would not accept the [Trinitarian] baptism of those who had been baptized by the Catholics and later joined the Donatists. In such instances baptism was repeated. [In the Name of Jesus] The law of the Roman Empire made this the offence, and the same law centuries after was used against the Baptist.” [Or the Anabaptist and Jesus Name people.]
Catholic Encyclopedia, 1911. "Other Arian sects, [Not all were Arian, many were One God] such as the Eunomians and Aetians, baptized "into the death of Christ". [Or in the Name of Jesus] Converts from Sabellianism were ordered by the First Council of Constantinople (can.vii) to be rebaptized because the doctrine of Sabellius that there was but one person in the Trinity. Pope Innocent I (As. Episc, Maced., vi) declares that these [Sabellian-One God] sectaries did not distinguish the Persons of the Trinity when baptizing. [In other words the Sabellians did not name or call on the Trinity titles over the people that they baptized. Rather they baptized in the name of Jesus!] The Council of Nicaea (can. xix) ordered the rebaptism of *Paulianists, and the Council of Aries (can. xvi and xvii) decreed the same for both Paulianists and Photinians. “There has been a Theological controversy over the question as to whether baptism in the name of Christ only was ever held valid. Certain texts in the New Testament have given rise to this difficulty. The St. Paul (Acts, xix) commands some disciples at Ephesus to be baptized in the Christ's name: "They were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus." In Acts, x, we read that St. Peter ordered others to be baptized "in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ". Those who were converted by Philip (Acts, vii) "were baptized in the name of Jesus Christ", and above all we have the explicit command of the Prince of the Apostles; "Be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ, for the remission of your sins" (Acts, ii). Owing to these texts some theologians have held that the Apostles baptized in the name of Christ only. St. Thomas, St. Bonaventure, and Albertus Magnus are invoked as authorities for this opinion, they declaring that the Apostles so acted by special dispensation. Other writers, as Peter Lombard and Hugh of
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