36.  Again, they are concerned with our original constitution, and final restoration, the types of the truth, the covenants, the first and second coming of Christ, His incarnation, sufferings and dissolution,82    Dissolution; some translate ‘return’—i.e. of the Ascension; referring the ‘resurrection, &c.’ to mankind in general. with the resurrection, the last day, the judgment and recompense, whether sad or glorious; I, to crown all, with what we are to think of the original83    Original.  Perhaps better ‘supreme.’ and blessed Trinity.  Now this involves a very great risk to those who are charged with the illumination84    Illumination.  Some apply this to Holy Baptism, with its preliminary instruction. of others, if they are to avoid contracting85    Contracting, i.e. by the Sabellian heresy.  A parallel passage in almost identical terms is Orat. xx. 6. their doctrine to a single Person, from fear of polytheism, and so leave us empty terms, if we suppose the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit to be one and the same Person only:  or, on the other hand, severing It into three, either foreign and diverse, or disordered and unprincipled, and, so to say, opposed divinities, thus falling from the opposite side into an equally dangerous error:  like some distorted plant if bent far back in the opposite direction.

Λ#2ʹ. Ἔτι τε ὅσα περὶ τῆς πρώτης ἡμῶν συστάσεως, καὶ τῆς τελευταίας ἀναπλάσεως, τύπων τε καὶ ἀληθείας, καὶ διαθηκῶν, καὶ Χριστοῦ παρουσίας πρώτης τε καὶ δευτέρας, σαρκώσεώς τε καὶ παθημάτων, καὶ ἀναλύσεως, ὅσα τε περὶ ἀναστάσεως, περὶ τέλους, περὶ κρίσεως καὶ ἀνταποδόσεως, σκυθρωποτέρας τε καὶ ἐνδοξοτέρας: καὶ τὸ κεφάλαιον ὅσα περὶ τῆς ἀρχικῆς καὶ μακαρίας Τριάδος ὑποληπτέον: ὅσπερ δὴ καὶ κινδύνων μέγιστος τοῖς φωτίζειν πεπιστευμένοις, ὡς μήτε εἰς μίαν ὑπόστασιν συναιρεθέντα τὸν λόγον δέει πολυθεΐας, ψιλὰ καταλιπεῖν ἡμῖν τὰ ὀνόματα, τὸν αὐτὸν Πατέρα καὶ Υἱὸν καὶ ἅγιον Πνεῦμα ὑπολαμβάνουσι: μήτε εἰς τρεῖς, ἢ ἐκφύλους καὶ ἀλλοτρίας διαιρεθέντα, ἢ ἀτάκτους καὶ ἀνάρχους, καὶ οἷον εἰπεῖν, ἀντιθέους, πρὸς κακὸν ἴσον ἐκ τῶν ἐναντίων μεταπεσεῖν: ὥσπερ φυτοῦ διαστροφῆς ἐπὶ θάτερα πολὺ μετακλινομένης.