In 1693 South intervened anonymously in the Socinian controversy, with strong animus against Sherlock, his " Animadversions " on Sherlock's " Animadversions on Dr Sherlock's Book, entitled a Vindication of the Holy and Ever Blessed Trinity " ( 1690 ) being humbly offered to his admirers, and to himself the chief of them . He made galling references to Sherlock's career, tainted with a conventicle at the outset; vehemently assailed his earlier writings as heterodox on the doctrine of atonement, and maintained his new notion of the Trinity to be tritheistic; an opinion reiterated in his " " Tritheism Charged upon Dr Sherlock's New Notion of the Trinity, and the Charge Made Good " ( 1695 ).
