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 Meaning of 'Enthusiasm' as generally dreaded in the eighteenth century 226

 A vague term, but important in the history of the period 227

 As entering into most theological questions then under discussion 229

 Cambridge Platonists: Cudworth, Henry More 230

 Influence of Locke's philosophy 234

 Warburton's 'Doctrine of Grace' 237

 Sympathy with the reasonable rather than the spiritual side of religion 237

 Absence of Mysticism in the last century, on any conspicuous scale 238

 Mysticism found its chief vent in Quakerism 240

 Quakerism in eighteenth century 241

 Its strength, its decline, its claim to attention 244

 French Mysticism in England. The 'French Prophets' 246

 Fénelon, Bourignon, and Guyon 249

 German Mysticism in England. Behmen 251

 William Law 253

 His active part in theological controversy 254

 Effects of Mysticism on his theology 255His breadth of sympathy and appreciation of all spiritual excellence 257Position of, in the Deist controversy 259Views on the Atonement 259On the Christian evidences 260Controversy with Mandeville on the foundations of moral virtue 261His speculation on the future state 261On Enthusiasm 263His imitator in verse, John Byrom 264

 The Moravians 265Wesley's early intimacy with W. Law and with the Moravians 266Lavington and others on the enthusiasm of Methodists 269Points of resemblance and difference between Methodism and the Mystic revivals 271

 Bearing of Berkeley's philosophy on the Mystic theology 274

 William Blake 275

 Dean Graves on enthusiasm 276

 Samuel Coleridge 277

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