The English Church in the Eighteenth Century

Chapter 6

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THE TRINITARIAN CONTROVERSY.

(_J.H. Overton._)

Importance of the question at issue, 197 Four different views on the subject, 198 Bull's 'Defensio Fidei Nicænæ', 199 Sherlock, Wallis, and South on the Trinity, 200 Charles Leslie on Socinianism, 201-2 William Whiston on the Trinity, 202-4 Samuel Clarke the reviver of modern Arianism, 204 Opponents of Clarke, 205 Waterland on the Trinity, 205-13 Excellences of Waterland's writings, 213 Convocation and Dr. Clarke, 214 Arianism among Dissenters, 215 Arianism lapses into Socinianism.--Faustus Socinus, 215 Modern Socinianism, 216 Isaac Watts on the Trinity, 217-9 Blackburne's 'Confessional', 219 Jones of Nayland on the Trinity, 219-20 Priestley on the Trinity, 220 Horsley's replies to Priestley, 220-4 Unitarians and Trinitarians (nomenclature), 225 Deism and Unitarianism, 226