Note 400 — Chapter XIII

See for example his defence of Origen, Def. Fid., i. 190, 196, 200. Notice, also, what Hallam says of Bull, Introduction to Lit., iv. 152. Hooker (in the Eccl. Polity, book v. s. 42) speaks of the Deity of our Lord Jesus Christ—the co-equality and co-eternity of the Son with the Father—as contained but not opened in the former Creed (the Apostles’). I would call attention to a pregnant remark of that great Divine:—“Howbeit, because this Divine mystery is more true than plain, divers having framed the same to their own conceits and fancies, are found in their expositions thereof more plain than true.”—Ibid., s. 52. May I add, that he seems to forget his own remarks in s. 56.