BULL, GEORGE English divine, was born at Wells and educated at Tiverton school and Exeter college, Oxford. He had to leave Oxford in 1649 as he refused to take the oath of allegiance to the Commonwealth. He was ordained privately by Bishop Skinner in and, after holding various prefer ments, became in 1705 bishop of St. David's. During the time of the Commonwealth he adhered to the forms of the Church of England, and under James II. preached strenuously against Roman Catholicism. His Defensio Fidei Nicenae (1685) tries to show that the doctrine of the Trinity was held by the ante-Nicene fathers of the church, and retains its value as a thorough-going examination of all the pertinent passages in early church litera ture. His other works include : Harmonia Apostolica (167o), Judicium Ecclesiae Catholicae and Primitiva et Apostolica Traditio The best edition of Bull's works is that in 7 vols. published at Oxford by the Clarendon Press, under the superintendence of E. Burton, in 1827. This contains the Life by Robert Nelson. The Harmonia, Defensio and Judicium are translated in the Library of Anglo-Catholic Theology