The Preface. and rpe,rfona. For the Latins rendred Hypofhrlis by Sub.: ftantia, and rPerjoHa by 7rePrJVYmv. Here~fJerom cotnplains io his £.piftle to DamajiH, that they required of him in th~Eafl: to confefs tres HypoStafes, and he would only ac- - lnovvledg~ tre~ Perjonao, Epifl. 71. : And Auflin gives an ' account of the fatne difference, de Trinitate, li-f;..p -c.ap. 8;,9· Athana(iuo endeavoured the compofing of this difference, and in a goodmea~1re effelt:ed it, as Gregory of Na,<;j_an:l zgn affirms in his Oration concerning his praife. It was done by him in a Syned at Alexandria in the fidl: year ofJulians rJ\.a~n., On this occaGon h1any contelts1arofe even among thetn who all pleaded their Acjherenc~ imto -the Dothine of the Councel ofNice. _:And as~ the "fi1bde Arians made incredible advantage hereof at fidl, pre– tending that they oppofed not the Dei_ty ofChrifl, · but only the expreilion ofit by o'p.9~01~; fo.afteJ;_Wards d~ey countenanced themfelves in coining words and-terms to texprefs their minds with,whichutterly rejeCted it.Hence \Vere their op.g:~01@-.,E-np~01@-,<t '~ ~x ovtTh;v, and the like natnes ofbhfphemy, about which the contefts were fierce and €ridlefs.: And, there \Vere yet farther evils that enft1ed: ,her·eon. For the curious_ and Serpentine wits ofmen,find:– ing themfelves by this tneans fet at liberry to think · and' difcourfe of thofe Myfl:eries of the Bleffed- Trinity, and' the Perfon of Chriil:, .without n1uch regard.unto plait1 Divine Tefl:in1onies, in iuch waies \vher~in cunnninR and fophiftry did much bea_r fvvay, began to m~ltiply- - ' - fi1cn
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