Christian church, it was continually on the increase; and, about the beginning of the fourth, it broke out with open violence under the name of the Arian heresy. This was little else but a new name clapt upon an old mass of error, which had been lying in detached fragments, up and down in the Christian world from the beginning. By Arius they were all gathered up and artfully formed into one complete system of falsehood and blasphemy. His opposition was chiefly directed against the doctrines of Christ’s