movement set on foot by the English Deists made a real and permanent
impression.

J.H.O.

FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote 147: That is, not in virtue of anything he wrote which can be
properly called Deism. Shaftesbury in his ethical and Bolingbroke in his
political writings may perhaps be termed classical writers, but neither
of them qua Deists.]

[Footnote 148: See Hunt's _Religious Thought in England_, vol. ii. p.
214.]

[Footnote 149: _View of the Deistical Writers_, Letter V. p. 32, &c.,
and Letter VI. p. 43, &c.]

[Footnote 150: The Rev. W.M. Hatch. See his dedication.]

[Footnote 151: See Warburton's Letters to Hurd, Letter XVIII. January
30, 1749-50.]

[Footnote 152: See Warburton's _Dedication of the Divine Legation of
Moses to the Freethinkers_. Jeffery, another contemporary, writes to the
same effect.]

[Footnote 153: _Sensus Communis_ (on the Freedom of Wit and Humour),
Sec. 4.]

[Footnote 154: Hoadly in one sense may be regarded as a 'Freethinker'
himself; but it was the very fact that he was so which made him resent
Collins's perversion of the term. The first of his 'Queries to the
Author of a Discourse of Freethinking' is 'Whether that can be justly
called Freethinking which is manifestly thinking with the utmost
slavery; and with the strongest prejudices against every branch, and the
very foundation of all religion?'--Hoadly's _Works_, vol. i.]

[Footnote 155: 'Conybeare, dessen Vertheidigung der geoffenbarten
Religion die gediegenste Gegenschrift ist, die gegen Tindal erschien. Es
ist eine logische Klarheit, eine Einfachheit der Darstellung, eine
ueberzeugende Kraft der Beweisfuehrung, ein einleuchtender Zusammenhang
des Ganzen verbunden mit wuerdiger Haltung der Polemik, philosophischer
Bildung und freier Liberalitaet des Standpunkts in diesem Buch, vermoege
welcher es als meisterhaft anerkannt werden muss.'--Lechler's
_Geschichte des Englischen Deismus_, p. 362. Warburton calls Conybeare's
one of the best reasoned books in the world.]

[Footnote 156: See Watson's _Life of Warburton_, p. 293.]

[Footnote 157: _Ibid._ iii. 133, 190, 201, 261.]

[Footnote 158: _Enquiry into the Ground and Foundation of the Christian
Religion_, p. 59.]

[Footnote 159: See _Enquiry concerning Redemption_.]

[Footnote 160: See his _Discourse concerning Reason_, p. 23, and his
_Reflections upon the comparative excellence and usefulness of Moral and
Positive Duties_, p. 27, &c.]

[Footnote 161: His letters o