of God, notwithstanding their error ; diat Arius and his*
followers y/ere ill used by the Consubstantialists ; that creeds
ought to be drawn up with simplicity ; that die Christians
in the fourth century did wrong to insert the word 6iJi.ocv<no^
in the' Nicene Creed ; that the Apostles Creed was suffi-
cient ; and that the Athanasian Creed, unless very favour^-
ably interpreted, was rather heterodox than orthodox.
He also defended the doctrine of Subordination; he
thought that the Son, though of the same nature with the
Father, yet, personally considered, was lesser than the Fa-
ther, and inferior to him, as the Father was the fountain of
divinity, from whom the Son and the Spirit received their
being and their perfections.
If he could have seen the Confession of Faith **, presented

" A. 1544, Merindoliani et Caprarienses in Venascinen»i coimtatu>.
sab patrocinio olim Dominorum de Cabriera habitantes^ existentesque
reliquiae Albigensium, sequentem fidei suae confessionena obtulenint
Francisco I, regi Galliae, quam a majoribus quasi per manus acceperant,
^hinc anno post Cbristi incarnationem 1200, quemadmodam ex omnl
inemoria aetatum atque temporum a veteribus intellexerant. Eadem. le«.
gitur in Carol i Molinaei monarchia Francorum, quae in Latinum ex Gal-»
Eco versa ita sonat :

Credimus unum tantum esse Deum, qui spiritua est^ rerum cuncta^*
nim conditor, fater omnium, super et per omnia, in tiobis omnibus,
adorandus in spiritu et vcrilate, quern solum exspectamus, datorem vitae,
alimentorum, indumentorum j prosperae item valetudinis, infirmitatis,
commodorum et incommodorum : hunc diligimus tanquam omnis boni^
tatis auctorem, etceacordium inspeetorem timemus.
