The modern creed is alternately the one or the other, as occasion requires.

Sabellians would find themselves out to be mere Unitarians, if they always remained Sabellians: but in fact, they are half their lives Ditheists.

They do not _aim_ at consistency; would an upholder of the pseudo-Athanasian creed desire it?
Why, that creed teaches, that the height of orthodoxy is to contradict oneself and protest that one does not.

Now, however, rose on me the question: Why do I not take the Irish clergyman at his word, and attack him and others as idolaters and worshippers of three Gods?
It was unseemly and absurd in him to try to force me into what he must have judged uncharitableness; but it was not the less incumbent on me to find a reply.
I remembered that in past years I had expressly disowned, as obviously unscriptural and absurd, prayers to the Holy Spirit, on the ground that the Spirit is evidently _God in the hearts of the faithful_, and nothing else: and it did not appear to me that any but a few extreme and rather fanatical persons could be charged with making the Spirit a third God or object of distinct worship.

On the other hand, I could not deny that the Son and the Father were thus distinguished to the mind.