and substituted a created demigod for the eternal uncreated Logos; it degraded Christianity to a merely relative value; it separated God and the world by an impassable gulf, and made a real reconciliation and atonement impossible; it represented the Erastian principle, and associated itself with the secular political power, without which it soon lost its vitality; its irresistible tendency is downward to Socinianism, Unitarianism, and Rationalism, until the untenable conception of a secondary God,