23. The fourth book starts with the
doctrines of the heretics, and disowns complicity in the fallacies
whereby they are traducing the faith of the Church. It publishes
that infidel creed which a number of them have lately
promulgated The letter of Arius to
Alexander; Book iv., §§ 12, 13., and exposes the
dishonesty, and therefore the wickedness, of their arguments from the
Law for what they call the unity of God. It sets out the whole
evidence of Law and Prophets to demonstrate the impiety of asserting
the unity of God to the exclusion of the Godhead of Christ, and the
treason of alleging that if Christ be God the Only-begotten, then God
is not one.