* * It was Justin's business to shew that there was a divine Person, one who was God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and was not the Father; and therefore there were two divine Persons.
At all events, it was a very incautious expression on the part of Justin, though his meaning was, doubtless, that which Waterland gives.
The same most improper, or at best, most inconvenient because equivocal phrase, has been, as I think, interpolated into our Apostles' Creed.
Ib.p.

436.
[Greek: Taeroito d' an, hos ho emos logos, ehis men Theos, eis hen aition kai Ghiou kai Pneumatos anapheromenon.

k.t.l.]--Greg.

Naz.
Orat.

29.
We may, as I conceive, preserve (the doctrine of) one God, by referring both the Son and Holy Ghost to one cause, &c.
Another instance of the inconvenience of the Trias compared with the Tetractys.
[Footnote 1: A Vindication of Christ's Divinity: being a defence of some queries relating to Dr.Clarke's scheme of the Holy Trinity, &c.