n the 'Study of History' contain the same
principles.]

[Footnote 162: Pattison's 'Tendencies of Religious Thought in England,
1688-1750,' in _Essays and Reviews_.]

[Footnote 163: 'There is a book called _The Moral Philosopher_ lately
published. Is it looked into? I should hope not, merely for the sake of
the taste, the sense, and learning of the present age.... I hope nobody
will be so indiscreet as to take notice publicly of the book, though it
be only in the fag end of an objection.--It is that indiscreet conduct
in our defenders of religion that conveys so many worthless books from
hand to hand.'--Letter to Mr. Birch in 1737. In Nichols' _Literary
Illustrations of the Eighteenth Century_, ii. 70.]

[Footnote 164: See Charles Churchill's lines on Warburton in _The
Duellist_. After much foul abuse, he thus describes _The Divine
Legation_:--

To make himself a man of note,
He in defence of Scripture wrote.
So long he wrote, and long about it,
That e'en believers 'gan to doubt it!
A gentleman well-bred, if breeding
Rests in the article of reading;
A man of this world, for the next
Was ne'er included in his text,' &c. &c.

Gibbon calls _The Divine Legation_ 'a monument, already crumbling in the
dust, of the vigour and weakness of the human mind.'--See _Life of
Gibbon_, ch. vii. 223, note. Bishop Lowth says of it ironically, '_The
Divine Legation_, it seems, contains in it all knowledge, divine and
human, ancient and modern; it treats as of its proper subject, de omni
scibili et de quolibet ente; it is a perfect encyclopaedia; it includes
in itself all history, chronology, criticism, divinity, law, politics,'
&c. &c.--_A Letter to the Right Rev. Author of 'The Divine Legation,'_
p. 13 (1765).]

[Footnote 165: There were two anti-Deistical writers of the name of
Chandler, (1) the Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield, and (2) Dr. Samuel
Chandler, an eminent Dissenter. Both wrote against Collins, but the
latter also against Morgan and the anonymous author of the _Resurrection
of Jesus considered_.

Sherlock's _Tryal of the Witnesses_ ought perhaps to have been noticed
as one of the works of permanent value written against the Deists.
Wharton says that 'Sherlock's _Discourses on Prophecy and Trial of the
Witnesses_ are, perhaps, the best defences of Christianity in our
language.' Sherlock's lawyer-like mind enabled him to manage the
controversy with rare skill, but the tone of theologi