leaven, that we can recover the priftine simplicity and purity of our most excellent and truly rational, though much abused, religion,

Athanafianifm, I think, will fufficiently ap pear to have been merely Oriental philosophy in its origin, and afterwards to have become more abfurd than the original tenets of that philofophy; and Arianifm is only the fame philofophy altered, free indeed from the palpable contradictions of Athanafianism, but it is, in other refpects, no less remote from the proper scheme of christianity. I fhall think myself happy if, by this or any other of my writings, I be able to throw the least new light upon a fubject which has fo near a relation to the fundamental principles of the christian system.

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CATALOGUE

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Some of the BOOKS that are quoted in

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this Treatife.

S there are different editions of several of the books that I have quoted in this treatise, it will be proper to fubjoin a list of the copies that I have made ufe of. It will also be proper to give more at length the titles of fome books that I have frequently referred to very concisely, having fometimes mentioned nothing more than the name of the writer.

This has been more especially the case with Beaufobre and Dupin, to both of whom, and especially the former, I am much indebted for my historical account of the opinions of the ancients. And I would obferve in this place, that when I might, with no great trouble, have given those opinions from the original authors themselves, I have often chosen to give

them

them as represented by fuch writers as thefe. Because as these things have been very differently, represented, I was confident that the opinion of these writers would be more respected than my own, their learning and exactness being univerfally acknowledged; and their views in writing being different from mine, they cannot be suspected of partiality to my hypothefis.

FOLIO.

Tertulliani Opera, per Rigaltium. Paris 1675. Divi Gregorii Papæ Opera.

Juftini Martyris Apologia, cum Notis

Thirlbii.

Arnobius Adverfus Gentes, per Elmen

horftium.

Paris 1551.

London 1722.

Hamb. 1610.

London 1696.

Paris 1619.

Dupin's Hiftory of Ecclefiaftical Wri

ters.

Joannis Damafceni Opera, per J. Billium.

Plutarchi Opera, per Xylandrum.

Franckfort 1620.

Anfelmi Opera, per Picardum. Col.Agrip. 1612. Bernardi Opera, per Picardum. Paris 1609. Athanafii Opera, Gr. Lat. 2 vols. Paris 1627.

The

Th. Aquinatis Summa.

Paris 1631.

QUART O.

Cudworth's Intellectual System.

Hiftoire Critique de Manichée, et du

Manicheifme, per M. de Beaufobre,

2 vols.

Caffiodori Opera.

Amfterd. 1734.

Geneva 1637.

OCTA V O.

Leland on the Advantage and Neceffity of the Chriftian Revelation, 2 vols.

1768.

Petri Lombardi Sententiæ. Moguntiæ. 1632. An Historical View of the Controverfy concerning an intermediate State, and the separate Exiftence of the Soul, 2d edition.

1772.

Wollafton's Relig. of Nature, 7th edit. 1750. Warburton's Divine Legation, 4 vols. 4th

edition, 1754.

DUODECIMO.

MofEnii Differtationes ad Hiftoriam Ecclefiafticam pertinentes. Altonaviæ 1733.