But it is strange, that Sherlock should not have seen that Grotius had a hankering toward Socinianism, but, like a 'shy cock', and a man of the world, was always ready to unsay what he had said.
[Footnote 1: A Vindication of the Doctrine of the Holy and ever Blessed Trinity and the Incarnation of the Son of God, occasioned by the Brief Notes on the Creed of St Athanasius, and the Brief History of the Unitarians, or Socinians.

and containing an answer to both.

By Wm.
Sherlock, London.8vo.

1690.] [Footnote 2: The third General Council, that at Ephesus in 431, decreed "that it should not be lawful for any man to publish or compose another Faith or Creed than that which was defined by the Nicene Council." Ed.] * * * * * NOTES ON WATERLAND'S VINDICATION OF CHRIST'S DIVINITY.

[1] 'In initio'.
It would be no easy matter to find a tolerably competent individual who more venerates the writings of Waterland than I do, and long have done.
But still in how many pages do I not see reason to regret, that the total idea of the 4=3=1,--of the adorable Tetractys, eternally self-manifested in the Triad, Father, Son, and Spirit,--was never in its cloudless unity present to him.