province of reviewer to another; and not to have availed himself of the prodigious advantage of the cheap and immenfe circulation which the Review gave him. As Dr. Horfley confiders this writer (page 77) as learned in ecclefiaftical history, and may wish to have him for an ally, let him not, like Commodus, throw his darts from a ftage; but if he have any confidence in his own prowess, (of which he seems to have no diftruft) let him, masked or unmasked, defcend into the arena along with us. ERRAT A. (h) Signifies from the bottom. P. 16. 1. 1. for or read nor. 21 1. 21. for were read wery. *. 1. 24, for advantages read advantage. 60. 1. 1. dele then, 61.1. (b) for notion read motion. 124. 1. 13. dele early. 143. 1. 13. for a read the. CORRECTIONS. P. 118. 1. 2. (b) for almoft the whole read a great part. THE CONTENTS. Page Of the inference that may be drawn from the paf- fage of Athanafius, concerning the opinion An argument for the late origin of the doctrine of the divinity of Chrift, from the difficulty of tracing the time in which it was first di- 4 LETTE LETTER Of the perfonification of the Logos VI. Page 65 LETTER VII. Confiderations relating to the doctrine of the Tri POSTSCRIPT 1. Pallages from Origen, referred to p. 19, 20, 21. 117 II. Of Herefy in early times III. Of the conduct of the Apostles IV. Of the excommunication of Thea datus by V. Of Justin Martyr's account of the knowledge 118 120 121 124 VI. Of the palage in Juftin Martyr concerning the Unitarians of his time 127 VII. Of the first author of the darine of the per manent perfonality of the Lagas 134 VIII. Maxims of biftorical criticism 135 XI. A fummary view of the evidence for the primitive chriftians having held the doctrine of the fimple humanity of Christ. X. A Reply to the Monthly Review, for Sep tember, 1783 APPENDIX 140 148 161 AN A N INTRODUCTORY LETTER. DEAR SIR, A S it is my earnest wish, that every subject of importance may be fully investigated, I am happy to find that you have done me the honour to animadvert on my History of the Corruptions of Christianity, in your late Charge to the Clergy, at St. Alban's, as you formerly did on my Treatise on Philofophical Neceffity, in a Sermon. I was in hopes that my reply to the latter would have led you to pursue the argument with me to its proper termination. But though I failed in my attempts to engage your aflistance in that inquiry, I flatter myself that I fhall be more fuccefsful in this; especially as, by the temper and style of your performance, you feem to interest yourself more deeply in this subject, imagining, no doubt, and very juftly, that much more depends upon it. You have given, however, a degree of importance to my work, which I own I had not thought of myself, when you fay to your reverend brethren, P. 5, "You will eafily conjecture that what has led me to these reflections, is the extraordinary attempt "which has lately been made to unfettle the faith, and "to break up the constitution, of every ecclefiaftical "establishment in christendom. Such is the avowed "object of a recent publication, which bears the B "title |