Besides the works already referred to, the following, among many others, may be consulted in defence of the Trinity, and of the Athanasian Creed: Dr. Allix's Judgment of the Jewish Church; Bishop Pearson On the Creed; Dr. Hammond on the Creeds, in the first volume of his Works; Vindication of the Trinity from the Works of Tillotson and Stilling fleet; Dr. Waterland's Importance of the Holy Trinity; Dr. Ridley's and Mr. Wheatley's Sermons at Lady Moyer's Lecture; Mr. Jones' Catholic Doctrine of the Trinity; Lloyd's Vindication of the Athanasian Creed; Rotheram's Apology for the Athanasian Creed; and Archdeacon Dodwell's three Charges on the Athanasian Creed, published by his son.

See also Dean Tucker's Dispassionate View of the Difficulties of Trinitarian, Arian, and Socinian Systems; and Pike's Impartial View of the Principal Difficulties that affect the Trinitarian, or clog the Arian Scheme.*

Those who wish to know what has been said by the Anti-Trinitarians, in favour of their respective schemes, may consult the Poloni Fratres; the writings of Dr. Priestley; An Essay on Spirit; The Confessional; Dr. Clarke's Scripture Doctrine of the Trinity; Ben Mordecai's Apology, 2d edit. &c.†

* A most elaborate defence of the Trinity was published about the beginning of the 17th century, by Ritangelius, a converted Jew. But, perhaps, none of the moderns have defended the Catholic system more ably than Bishop Bull.

The full title of this last work is, The Apology of Ben

MISCELLANEOUS REMARKS.-The Christian Trinity is not a Trinity of principles, like that of the Persian philosophers; it does not consist of mere logical notions, and inadequate conceptions of the Deity, like that of Plato; but it is a Trinity of subsistences, or persons joined by an indissoluble union; and if it be true, "it is no doubt in the highest degree important and interesting."*

Say not," observes the late pious and excellent Bishop Horne, "say not, that the doctrine of the Trinity is a matter of curiosity and amusement only. Our religion is founded upon it: For what is Christianity, but a manifestation of the three divine persons, as engaged in the great work of man's redemption, begun, continued, and to be ended by them, in their several relations of Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, Creator, Redeemer, and Sanctifier, three persons, one God?-If there be no Son of God, where is our redemption? If there be

jamin Ben Mordecai to his Friends, for embracing Christianity, in Seven Letters to Elisha Levi, Merchant of Amsterdam; together with an Eighth Letter on the Generation of Jesus Christ, with Notes and Illustrations. The 2d edit. with Alterations and Additions. By Henry Taylor, rector of Crawley, and vicar of Portsmouth; London, 1784, 2 vols. "These letters were printed at various times, from 1771 to 1777, in 4to; they are composed with great learning and ingenuity, and contain the most formidable attack on, what is called, the Athanasian system, that is any where to be met with."-Bishop WATSON's Catal. in the last vol. of his Tracts.

* So can even Dr. Priestley say; see Dr. Horsley's Letters to him, p. 186.,

no Holy Spirit, where is our sanctification?-Without both, where is our salvation?

"And if these two persons be any thing less than divine, why are we baptised, equally, in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost? Let no man therefore deceive "This you: is the true God, and eternal life."*

1 John, v. 20.

Sermon on The Trinity in Unity, (in the fifth volume of his Lordship's Sermons,) which sce, together with that on The Duty of contending for the Faith, in the same volume.

SABELLIANISM,

AND

SABELLIANS.

NAMES.-The Sabellians were so called from Sabellius, a presbyter, or, according to others, a bishop, of Upper Egypt, who was the founder of the sect. As, from their doctrine, it follows that God the Father suffered, they were hence called, by their adversaries, Patripassians; and, as their idea of the Trinity was by some called a Modal Trinity, they have likewise been called Modalists.

Sabellius having been a disciple of Noëtus, Noetians is another name by which his followers have sometimes been known;-and as, from their fears of infringing upon the fundamental doctrine of all true religion, the unity of God, they neglected all distinctions of persons, ani taught the notion of one God with three names, they may hence be also considered as a species of Unitarians.

RISE, &C.-Sabellius flourished about the middle of the 3d century, when his doctrine began to be known under the persecution of Valerian. It had its rise, and chiefly prevailed in Ptolemais, or Barce, one of the five cities of Pentapolis, a province of Upper Egppt;* and it seems to have had many followers, for some little time; but its growth was soon checked by the opposition made to it by Dionysius, bishop of Alexandria, and the sentence of condemnation that was pronounced upon its author by Pope Dionysius, in a council held at Rome, A. D. 263.

It was afterwards condemned in a council at Alexandria, A. D. 319. Epiphanius however remarks, that its abettors had spread in considerable / numbers throughout Mesopotamia, and in the neighbourhood of Rome; and the circumstance of their baptism having been rejected in a council at Constantinople, A. D. 381, is a proof that the sect was not then extinct. But St. Augustine seems to be of opinion, that it had no existence in the beginning of the 5th century.†

And though the adherents of Sabellianism, properly so called, have at no time been numerous in the Church since that period, yet their doctrine has given occasion to, or, at least, modifications of it have subsisted in, various succeeding heresies; and it is said to subsist, at this day, in

* Euseb. Hist. lib. vii. cap. 6., &c. Hence it was called Damnabilis Pentapolitana Doctrina.

† Aug. De Har. c. 4.