Chapter III
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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