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A Short History of Freethought Ancient and Modern, Volume 2 of 2

Note 210 — Chapter XVI · BRITISH FREETHOUGHT IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY

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1746. Essay on Natural Religion. Falsely attributed to Dryden.

1746. ,, Deism fairly stated and fully vindicated, etc. Anon.

1749. J. G. Cooper, Life of Socrates.

1750. John Dove, A Creed founded on Truth and Common Sense.

1750. ,, The British Oracle. (Two numbers only.)

1752. The Pillars of Priestcraft and Orthodoxy Shaken. Four vols. of freethinking pamphlets, collected (and some written) by Thomas Gordon, formerly secretary to Trenchard. Edited by R. Barron. (Rep. 1768.)

1765. W. Dudgeon, Philosophical Works (reprints of those of 1732, –4, –7, –9, above mentioned). Privately printed—at Glasgow?

1772. E. Evanson, The Doctrines of a Trinity and the Incarnation, etc.

1773. —— Three Discourses (1. Upon the Man after God’s own Heart; 2. Upon the Faith of Abraham; 3. Upon the Seal of the Foundation of God).

1777. —— Letter to Bishop Hurd.

1781. W. Nicholson, The Doubts of the Infidels. (Rep. by R. Carlile.)

1782. W. Turner, Answer to Dr. Priestley’s Letters to a Philosophical Unbeliever.

1785. Dr. G. Hoggart Toulmin, The Antiquity and Duration of the World.

1789. —— The Eternity of the Universe.210 (Rep. 1825.)

1789. ,, Dr. T. Cooper, Tracts, Ethical, Theological, and Political.

1792. E. Evanson, The Dissonance of the Four Evangelists. (Rep. 1805.)

1795. Dr. J. A. O’Keefe, On the Progress of the Human Understanding.

1797. John C. Davies, The Scripturian’s Creed. Prosecuted and imprisoned. (Book rep. 1822 and 1839.)

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