While the ballad makers celebrated the victory of Mrs.Sherlock, another class of assailants fell on the theological reputation of her spouse.

Till he took the oaths, he had always been considered as the most orthodox of divines.
But the captious and malignant criticism to which his writings were now subjected would have found heresy in the Sermon on the Mount; and he, unfortunately, was rash enough to publish, at the very moment when the outcry against his political tergiversation was loudest, his thoughts on the mystery of the Trinity.

It is probable that, at another time, his work would have been hailed by good Churchmen as a triumphant answer to the Socinians and Sabellians.

But, unhappily, in his zeal against Socinians and Sabellians, he used expressions which might be construed into Tritheism.

Candid judges would have remembered that the true path was closely pressed on the right and on the left by error, and that it was scarcely possible to keep far enough from danger on one side without going very close to danger on the other.