Pope told Warburton, A careful examination of Shaftesbury's writings can hardly fail to lead us to the same conclusion.And yet the general impression, when one has read Collins and Bentley carefully, is that there is a real element of truth in the former to which the latter has not done justice that Bentley presses Collins's arguments beyond their logical conclusion that Collins is not what Bentley would have him to be a mere search engine submission google Materialist an Atheist in disguise that Bentley's insinuation, that looseness of living is the cause of his looseness of belief, is ungenerous, and requires proof which Bentley has not given that the bitter abuse which he heaps upon his adversary as 'a wretched gleaner of weeds,' 'a pert teacher of his betters,' 'an unsociable animal,' 'an obstinate and intractable wretch,' and much more to the same effect, is unworthy of a Christian clergyman, and calculated to damage rather than do service to the cause which he has at heart.Williams' Memoirs of Atterbury, i.So far it was search engine submission google well.'Better take things as they are.Its general scope was to show that every man has a right to think freely on all religious as well as other subjects, and that the exercise of this right is the sole search engine submission google remedy for the evil of superstition.No.The responsibilities of each individual soul are happily not dependent upon unusual helps search engine submission google and extraordinary opportunities.' Robert Nelson had strongly recommended him to Archbishop Tillotson.Some of the most famous men of the day at once entered into the lists against him, amongst whom were Hoadly, Swift, Whiston, Berkeley, and above all search engine submission google Bentley.Collins himself was not put to silence.Leland passes over this work with a slight notice but it marked a distinct epoch in Deistical search engine submission google literature.' The object of this book is to show that Christianity is entirely founded on the fulfilment of the Old Testament prophecies, and then to prove that these prophecies were fulfilled not in a literal, but only in a typical or secondary sense.Admirably adapted to supply the spiritual wants of search engine submission google a certain class of minds, they represent one very important side of Christian truth.The spirit in which Deism appeared in its most pronounced form had been growing for many generations previous to that date.
