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CHAPTER III.

THE DEISTS.

(J.H. Overton.)

• Points at issue in the Deistical controversy 75-6
• Deists not properly a sect 76
• Some negative tenets of the Deists 77
• Excitement caused by the subject of Deism 78
• Toland's 'Christianity not mysterious' 79
• Shaftesbury's 'Characteristics' 80-2
• His protest against the Utilitarian view of Christianity 81
• Collins's 'Discourse of Freethinking' 82-3
• Bentley's 'Remarks' on Collins' 83-4
• Collins's 'Discourse on the Grounds and Reasons of the Christian Religion' 84-5
• Woolston's 'Six Discourses on the Miracles' 85
• Sherlock's 'Tryal of the Witnesses' 86
• Annet's 'Resurrection of Jesus Considered' 86
• Tindal's 'Christianity as old as the Creation' 86-7
• Conybeare's 'Defence of Revealed Religion' 87
• Tindal the chief exponent of Deism 88
• Morgan's 'Moral Philosopher' 89
• Chubbs's works 90-1
• 'Christianity not founded on argument' 92-3
• Bolingbroke's 'Philosophical Works' 93-6
• Butler's 'Analogy' 96-7
• Warburton's 'Divine Legation of Moses' 97-8
• Berkeley's 'Alciphron, or the Minute Philosopher' 98-9
• Leland's 'View of the Deistical Writers' 100-1
• Pope's 'Essay on Man' 101-2
• John Locke's relation to Deism 102-5
• Effects of the Deistical controversy 106-8
• Collapse of Deism 108
• Want of sympathy with the Deists 110
• Their unpopularity 111

CHAPTER IV.

LATITUDINARIAN CHURCHMANSHIP.

(1.) CHARACTER AND INFLUENCE OF ARCHBISHOP TILLOTSON'S THEOLOGY.

(C.J. Abbey.)

• Use of the term 'Latitudinarian'