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THE DEISTS. (J.H. Overton.)

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 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.

The English Church in the Eighteenth Century

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