CENTURY III.
20. The Monarchici, or Patripassians, followers of Praxeas; who denied a plurality of persons in the Trinity, and affirmed that our Saviour was God the Father.
21. The Arabici; who believed that the soul dies, or sleeps, till the day of judgment, and then rises with the body.
22. The Aquarians; who used only water in the eucharist.
23. The Novatians; who would not allow those, who had lapsed in time of persecution, to be restored, upon repentance, to communion.
24. The Origenists, followers of Origen; who, among other things, held that the devil, and all the damned, will at last be saved.
25. The Melchisedechians: who held Melchisedech to be the Messiah.
26. The Sabellians, followers of Sabellius; who denied the Trinity, and affirmed that the distinction of persons in the Godhead was merely nominal, and founded only upon a diversity of attributes, &c.
27. The Manicheans, followers of Manes; who held that two opposite principles reigned over the world, the one good, the other bad, &c.
CENTURY IV.