VI. It is most incorrectly stated (_Preface_, p. xx.) that “Dr. Priestley, Mr. Lindsey, Mr. Belsham, not to mention earlier writers, have laboured hard to show that the Fathers of the first three centuries were Unitarians, _and believers in the simple humanity of Jesus Christ_.” Such a labour was never undertaken by these writers, nor by any one else. It is capable of proof that the Fathers of the three first centuries were _not_ Trinitarian in the Athanasian sense; but that they were believers in the simple _humanity_ of the Christ, no one maintains, from the time that Platonism first began to transform Christianity into harmony with its own peculiar ideas. That Unitarians have supported this view by “hardy misquotations,” is, to say the least of it, an unwise provocation from men who have in the course of this Controversy been convicted of the most careless misquotations both in their own case (_see especially preface to the Seventh Unitarian Lecture_), and in that of their favourite Champion (_see the Appendix to the Sixth Unitarian Lecture_). That the substantial statements of Unitarians as to the Unitarianism of the primitive Church have been overturned by Bull, &c., (_Trinitarian preface_, p. xxi.) is a hardy assertion in the face of the following quotations from Bull himself: “In the FIRST and BEST ages, the Churches of Christ directed all their prayers ACCORDING TO THE SCRIPTURES, TO GOD ONLY, _through_ the alone mediation of Jesus Christ.”—_Answer to a Query of the Bishop of Meaux_, p. 295. “The Father is rightly styled THE WHOLE, as he is the fountain of divinity: For the divinity which is in the _Son_ and in the _Holy Ghost_, is the _Father’s_, because it is DERIVED FROM THE FATHER.”—_Defence_, sect. ii. 8. For another quotation from Bishop Bull, see also preface, p. vi., to the Seventh Unitarian Lecture.