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THE DEISTS. (J.H. Overton.)
ОглавлениеPoints 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