A brief declaration and vindication of the doctrine of the Trinity as also of…

But he, with whom we have to deal in this matter, neither ever did, nor ever will, nor can acquiesce or rest in the divine determination of any thing which he hath stirred up strife and controversy about. For as Cerinthus and the Ebionites persisted in the Heresy of the Jews, who would have slain our Saviour for bearing witness to his own Deity, notwithstanding the evidence of that testimony, and the right apprehension which the Jews had of his mind therein; so he excited others to engage and persist in their Opposition to the truth, notwithstanding this second particular determination of it from Heaven, for their confutation or confusion. For after the more weak and confused oppositions made unto it by Theodotus Coriarius, Artemon, and some others, at length a stout Champion appears visibly and expressly engaged against these fundamentals of our faith. This was Paulus Sa nosatenus Bishop of the ⟨p. 19⟩Church of Antioch about the year 272. A man of most intolerable pride, passion, and folly; the greatest that hath left a name upon Ecclesiastical Records. This man openly and avowedly denied the Doctrine of the Trinity, and the Deity of Christ in an especial manner. For although he endeavoured for a while, to cloud his impious sentiments in ambiguous expressions, as others also have done, (Euseb. lib. 7. cap. 27.) yet being pressed by the Professors of the truth, and supposing his party was somewhat confirmed, he plainly defended his Heresy, and was cast out of the Church wherein he presided. Some sixty years after, Photinus Bishop of Syrmium, with a pretence of more sobriety in life and conversation, undertook the management of the same design, with the same success.

But he, with whom we have to deal in this matter, neither ever did, nor ever will, nor can acquiesce or rest in the divine determination of any thing which he hath stirred up strife and controversie about. For as Cerinthus and the Ebionites persisted in the Heresie of the Jews, who would have slain our Saviour for bearing witness to his own Deity, notwithstanding the evidence of that testimony, and the right apprehension which the Jews had of his mind therein; so he excited others to engage and persist in their Opposition to the truth, notwithstanding this second particular determination of it from Heaven, for their confutation or confusion. For after the more weak and confused oppositions made unto it by Theodotus Coriarius, Artemon, and some others, at length a stout Champion appears visibly and expresly engaged against these fundamentals of our faith. This was Paulus Sa nosatenus Bishop of the