P. 29. 1. 9. &c. (b) dele all within the parenthesis.
P. 32. 1.3. (b) dele is not quoted by Irenæus and, &c.
P. 55. 1. 7. (b) read the greater part.

P. 74. 1. 6. dele According to Epiphanius, and to the end of the

sentence.

P. 99. 1. 6. (b) read that there may be God, the word, wisdom,

man.

P. 216. 1. 12. for our Lord, read the Lord.

IN VOL. II.

P. 11. 1. 10. read, In this age the table on which it was celebratea was called the mystical table, and Theophilus, to whom Jerom (if the epistle be genuine) writes, says, that the very utensils, &c.

For this last correction I am obliged to the writer of the Cri tical Review; and I shall be thankful to any of my readers for the notice of any other oversight, from which a work of this extent could not be expected to be exempt.

N. B. A copy of these corrections will be given to the purchasers of the History.

OF

The principal Ecclesiastical Writers, &c. after the Apostolic Age, with the Time when they flourished, chiefly from Cave's Historia Literaria.

The different Opinions of Dr. HORSLEY and
Dr. PRIESTLEY briefly stated.

THAT my readers may more easily form a clear and comprehensive idea of the nature and extent of this controversy, I shall, in this place, briefly state the principal articles on which Dr. Horsley and myself hold different opinions.

1. Dr. Horsley insists upon it that the faith of the primitive christian church must have been trinitarian, because that doctrine appears in the writings of Barnabas and Ignatius. I say that, admitting these works to be genuine in the main, they bear evident marks of interpolation, with respect to this very subject, and therefore the conclusion is not just.

2. Dr. Horsley says, that those who are called Ebionites did not exist in the age of the apostles, and also that, though they believed the simple humanity of Christ, they probably held some mysterious exaltation of his nature after his ascension, which made him the object of prayer to them. I say the Ebionites certainly existed in the time of the apostles, and that this notion of their holding such an exaltation of his nature, as to make him the object of prayer, is highly improbable.

3. Dr. Horsley says, that those who are called Nazarenes by the early christian writers believed the divinity of Christ, that they did not exist till after the time of Adrian, and had their name from the place where they settled in the North of Galilee, after they were then driven from Jerusalem. I maintain that these Nazarenes no more believed the divinity of Christ than the Ebionites, and that, together with