small, and fuch advances were made towards the Mahometans by the unitarians of the last age, that there is good ground to think, that the unitarians will foon acknowledge the divine miffion of Mahomet. He also represents christianity on the principles of unitarianifm, as inferior to deifm, and when joined with materialism, as highly favourable to atheism. Such charges as these, I say, can proceed from nothing but ignorance and malevolence, and do not deferve a ferious refutation.

These are all the articles of importance on which we hold different opinions, every thing elfe being of lefs moment, and fubordinate to these.

THE

THE

CONTENT S.

THE
HE Preface

A catalogue of the principal ecclefiaftical writers, &c.

after the apoftolic age, with the time when they flou-

rifhed, chiefly from Cave's Hiftoria Literaria

The different opinions of Dr. Horfley and Dr. Priefiley,

briefly flated

LETTER L

Pagė

XXX

The Introduction

LETTER

II.

Of the doctrine of the first ages concerning the person of

Of a fuppofed orthodox Jewish church at Jerufalem, and

Of the fentiments of Justin Martyr, Irenæus, and Cle-

mens Alexandrinus, concerning herefy

3

55

LETTER

LETTER

Of the ftate of herefy in the time of Tertullian

LETTER

Of Origen's idea of heresy

LETTER

VII.

`61

VIII.

73

IX.

Of the light in which the unitarians were confidered in

later ages, and of the ftate of the common people at all

LETTER XI.

Of the time when Christ began to be confidered as God,

and the opinion of the ancient and modern Jews with

respect to the Messiah

LETTER

Of the perfonification of the logos

103

XII.

124

LETTER XIII,

Confiderations relating to the doctrine of the trinity

134

Of the light in which the diffenters are confidered by the

Archdeacon of St. Albans, and of the penalties to which

the unitarians among them are fubject

LETTER

Of the charge of wilful misrepresentation, &c.

LETTER

Mifcellaneous articles, and the conclufion

177

XVIII.

186

XIX.

194

APPENDIX to Letter VIII. relating to the argument

for the novelty of the doctrine of the trinity, from the

alarm that it gave to the common people

209

RATA.

N. B. (5) fignißes from the bottom of the page,

F. 95. 1. 1. (5) for unbegotten, read only begotten.
P. 107. l. 6. for Sheclinab, read Shechinab,
P. 4. 1. S. for then, read there.