The
_Religion of Protestants_ is characterized by much fairness and
acuteness of argument, and was commended by Locke as a discipline of
"perspicuity and the way of right reasoning." The charge of
Socinianism was frequently brought against him, but, as Tillotson
thought, "for no other cause but his worthy and successful attempts to
make the Christian religion reasonable." His creed, and the whole gist
of his argument, is expressed in a single sentence, "I am fully
assured that God does not, and therefore that men ought not to,
require any more of any man than this, to believe the Scripture to be
God's word, and to endeavour to find the true sense of it, and to live
according to it."

A _Life_ by Rev. T. Birch was prefixed to the 1742 edition of
Chillingworth's _Works_.

CHILOE (from _Chile_ and _hue_, "part of Chile"), a province of southern
Chile, and also the name of a large island off the Chilean coast forming
part of the province. The province, area 8593 sq. m., pop. (1895)
77,750, is composed of three groups of islands, Chiloe, Guaitecas and
Chonos, and extends from the narrow strait of Chacao in 41 deg. 40' S. to
the peninsula of Taytao, about 45 deg. 45' S. The population is composed
mainly of Indians, distantly related to the tribes of the mainland, and
mestizos. The capital of the province is Ancud or San Carlos, at the
northern end of the island of Chiloe, on the sheltered bay of San
Carlos, once frequented by whalers. It is the seat of a bishopric; pop.
(1905) 3182. Other towns are Castro, the former capital, on the eastern
shore of Chiloe, and the oldest town of the island (founded 1566), once
the seat of a Jesuit mission, and Melinca on an island of the Guaitecas
group.

The island of Chiloe, which lies immediately south of the province of
Llanquihue, is a continuation of the western Chilean formation, the
coast range appearing in the mountainous range of western Chiloe and
the islands extending south along the coast. Between this coast range
and the Andes, the gulfs of Chacao, or Ancud and Corcovado (average
width, 30 m.) separate the island from the mainland. Chiloe has an
extreme length north to south of about 118 m., and an average width of
35 to 40 m., with an area of about 4700 sq. m. There are several lakes
on the island--Cucao, 12 m. long, being the largest,--and one small
river, the Pudeto, in the northern part of the island, is celebrated