to broach his Heresy; for great Numbers of People, especially Women, embraced his Doctrine, being taken, and in a manner inchanted, with the Sweetness of his Verses; for he composed a great many Songs and Odes equally pious and elegant, adapted to all Occasions, and on all Occasions sung with suitable Airs by his Followers[1070]. To these _Gregory Nazianzen_ no doubt alludes, where he speaks of the Psalms of the _Apollinarists_, to which the Psalms of _David_ had given place; of those sweet and so much admired Verses, which were looked upon by them as a Third Testament[1071]. It was chiefly to oppose the Progress _Apollinaris_ made, by the insinuating Means of his Poetry, that _Gregory Nazianzen_ applied himself to the same Study. About the Year 362. _Apollinaris_ was raised, in Consideration of his great Piety and Learning, to the See of _Laodicea_ in _Syria_, in which City he was born, according to the most probable Opinion, and had spent the greater Part of his Life. [Sidenote: _The Doctrine held by_ Apollinaris, _and his Disciples_.] As for the Doctrine held by _Apollinaris_, and his Followers, called from him _Apollinarists_; they maintained at first, that _Christ_ had human Flesh, but not a human Soul, the Want of which was supplied, according to them, by the Divinity. But being afterwards convinced, that such a Doctrine was repugnant to several plain and express Passages of Scripture, they abandoned it in Part, and, distinguishing, with some Philosophers, the Soul, by which we live, from the Intelligence, by which we reason, they allowed the former in our _Saviour_, but denied the latter; the Operations of which, said they, were performed by the Divinity[1072]. Thus they allowed him, says St. _Austin_, the Soul of a Beast, but denied him that of a Man[1073]. By means of this Doctrine they avoided the Absurdity with which they reproached the Catholics, admitting in Christ, as they falsly imagined, Two opposite and distinct Natures, without any Union or Subordination between them[1074]. The Catholics indeed acknowleged Two distinct and complete Natures in Christ; but at the same time maintained an Union between them, such an Union as was admitted by the _Apollinarists_ between the Flesh and the Divinity. The latter upbraided the Catholics with adoring a Man, styling them _Anthropolaters_; and the Catholics reproached in their Turn the _Apollinarists_ with adoring the Flesh, calling them _Sarcolaters_[1075]. The _Apollinarists_ distinguished themselves from the Catholics, by causing the following Words to be fixed on the Front of their Houses; _We must not adore a Man that bears a God, but a God that bears Flesh_. The Errors of the _Apollinarists_ were not only concerning the Soul, but likewise the Body of our Saviour; for they maintained, that his Body, like other Bodies only in Appearance, was coeval with the Divinity, and of the same Substance with the eternal Wisdom[1076]. Hence it followed, by a natural Consequence, that the Body