39. See Daille, de Usu Patrum, and Le Clerc Bibliotheque
Universelle, tom. x. p. 409. To arraign the faith of the
Ante-Nicene fathers was the object, or at least has been the
effect, of the stupendous work of Petavius on the Trinity
(Dogm. Theolog. tom. ii.), nor has the deep impression been
erased by the learned defence of Bishop Bull.