Thus ended the Life of _Hypatia_, whose Memory will ever last, and whose Murder happen’d in the fourth Year of _Cyril_’s Episcopate, _Honorius_ being the tenth Time and _Theodosius_ the sixth Time Consuls, in the Month of _March_, in the Time of _Lent_, and in the Year 415. “That Action (says _Socrates_) brought no small Infamy not only upon _Cyril_, but also upon the whole Church of _Alexandria_; for Slaughters, and Fightings, and such like Things, are quite foreign to the Christian Institution.” There’s nothing surer, there’s nothing truer; but of genuine Christianity there remain’d very little at that Time, unless Christianity be made to consist in the bare Name and Profession; for, were I disposed to take this Trouble upon me, I should think it no difficult Task to shew, that neither the Doctrines nor Distinctions then in Vogue were ever taught by _Christ_ or his Apostles; and that the Ceremonies injoined or practised were all utterly unknown to them. No, no, they were no Christians that kill’d _Hypatia_; nor are any Christian Clergymen now to be attack’d through the Sides of her Murderers, but those that resemble them; by substituting precarious Traditions, scholastick Fictions, and an usurped Dominion, to the salutiferous Institution of the holy _Jesus_. _Photius_ is very angry with _Philostorgius_, whom he stigmatizes as an _impious Man_, for saying that the _Homoousians_, or the _Athanasian Trinitarians, tore her to Pieces_; but is he not an _impudent Man_, or something worse, that dares to deny this? when none were more remarkable Sticklers for the _Homoousian_, than _Cyril_ and his Adherents. This only the Truth of History requires to be specially noted; for with me the _Homoiousion_ and the _Homoousion_ are of no Account, in Comparison of the _Bible_, where neither of them are to be found. In the mean Time ’twill not be amiss to hear _Gothofred_ on this Occasion. “Observe here (says he) the _Arian_ Poison of _Philostorgius_ against the _Homoousians_, or Catholicks; as if the Murder of _Hypatia_ were the Crime of the Catholicks, and not of the indiscrete Populace. Thus much however may be gathered from this Passage, that this same _Hypatia_ was no Catholick.” Admirable _Gothofred_! Not to say any thing to your _Arian_ Poison, for which I am not a whit concern’d neither of the People’s Guilt, whom I have sufficiently clear’d before; nor yet of the nice Distinction between the Populace and the Catholicks, as if the Bulk of the Catholicks were not the Populace: Your Conclusion that _Hypatia_ was not a Catholick is unspeakably acute, when in Reality she was not as much as a Christian; her Father having been a Heathen Philosopher, and herself the Wife of one, without the least Appearance that she was ever any other with regard to her own Persuasion. As for a ridiculous Letter, pretended to be written by her to _Cyril_, about the Paschal Cycle, ’tis a manifest Forgery; for she was murdered the sixth Year of _Theodosius_,