74 On the Slate of the Ckrisl'nms inlialit'ing 



Persons in One God, neither confouncling the persons nor 

 dividing the substance, One in Three, and Three in One. 



*' The Father generator; the Son generated; and the 

 Holy Ghost proceeding. 



*' None is before nor after other in majesty, honour, 

 TO'ght, and power; co-equal, nn.ty in trinity, and trinity in 

 unity. 



" We do not be'ieve, with Arius and Eunoniinus, that 

 there are three (hfiercnl and sepaiate substances. 



'* We ^o not belic\-e, as Sabellius bchcves, by confusion 

 otsubsianec, 



" We do not believe, as Maccdoaius said, thut the Holy 

 Ghost is less than the father and Son. 



" W^e do not belie\-e, as Mawney and Marcinnus* said, 

 that the body of Christ was sent down from heaven. 



*' We do not beUcve, as Juhanusf said, that Christ was 

 on!v man. 



*' We do not hold^ as Nestoriu?„ tlic doctrine of two na- 

 tures and two substances in the Messiah. 



*« We do not beheve, as the Chalccdonians said, that 

 there are two natures in the Messiah, 



" But we beheve, by the doctrine of the Trinitv, that the 

 Son is coequal with the Father, wiihout beginning or end; 

 that in the appointed time, through tlie disposition of the 

 Father and Holy Ghost, wiihout disjoining from the right 



or parties ; the one African, and the other Asktic. At the head of the Afi- 

 atics is the patriarch of Antioch, who resides, for the most part, in the mo- 

 nastery of St. Ananias, whicli is situated near the city of Merdin, and some- 

 ti:nes at Mcr^lin, his episcopal scat ; ns also at Amida, Abppo, and oiher 

 Svrian cities. The government of tills prelate is too extcnsire, and the 

 churches over wh.ich he presides too Bu~icrous, to admit of his pcriorming' 

 himself all the duties of his high ofllce; and therefore a part of the adn^iui- 

 stration of the pontificate is given to a kind of colleague, who is called the 

 Maphrian, or Prirr-ite of the East, and wiiose 4octrines and discipliise are sa.'d 

 to be adopted by the eastern church beyond the Tigris. This prin\aie used 

 forniprly to reside at Tauris, a city on the frontiers of Armenia } hnt hia 

 prcient habitation i;; tlie nionastery of St. ATatthew, which is in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Mou«it, a city of Altsvpotanira. It is fiirlbcr obser^nblc, that 

 all the patriarchs of the Jacobites assume thi- denomiiiation of Ignatius. — 

 Moshei-.ii, vol. iv. sect. x\. p. S,>7. 



♦ These, I snppocc, might be Manes and Marcion. 



f Perhaps Julian, bi-hop of HaUicarnassus." 



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