v. 15; _Serm._ xx. Sec.
12; Lactant. _Div. Inst._ vii. 21, all quoted in H.B. Wilson's speech,
1863, 102-10.]

[Footnote 260: Jerome, _Com. in Is._ tom. 3, ed. Ben. 514, quoted by Le
Clerc, _Bib. Choisie_, vii. 326.]

[Footnote 261: Clem. Alex. _Strom._ vii. Sec. 6, p. 851, quoted in Blunt,
J.J., _Early Fathers_, p. 80.]

[Footnote 262: Origen, _Hom._ 6, in _Ex. N._ 4, quoted by Wilson, and
_De Princip._ iii. c. v-vi. quoted by Blunt, _Early Fathers_, 99, and Le
Clerc, _Bibliotheque Choisie_, vii. 327.]

[Footnote 263: Wilson, 119 and 99.]

[Footnote 264: J.T. Rutt, note to Calamy's _Own Life_, i. 140.]

[Footnote 265: Biog. D., _Vane_.]

[Footnote 266: H. More, _Works_, ed. 1712. _On the Immortality of the
Soul_, b. iv. ch. xix. Sec. 9.]

[Footnote 267: Worthington's unhesitating acceptance of the tenet in
question (_Essay on Man's Redemption_, 1748, 308) is particularly
noticeable, because he was an ardent believer in the gradual restoration
of mankind in general to a state of perfection.]

[Footnote 268: _Life of Young_. Anderson's _British Poets_, x. 10.]

[Footnote 269: Fielding's _Joseph Andrews_, b. ii. ch. 3.]

[Footnote 270: Birch, T., _Life of Tillotson_, cliv.]

[Footnote 271: Locke, J., _Reasonableness of Christianity_, Preface.]

[Footnote 272: S. xxxv., _Works_, iii. 85.]

[Footnote 273: Id. 84.]

[Footnote 274: Id. and i. 511; S. cxl.]

[Footnote 275: Birch, clvi.]

[Footnote 276: _Bibliotheque Choisie_, tom. vii. art. 7.]

[Footnote 277: S. ccxii., _Works_, ix. 84.]

[Footnote 278: C. Leslie, _Works_, ii. 596-7.]

[Footnote 279: Young's _Poems_, Sat. vi.]

[Footnote 280: They complained that Jesus Christ had not been preached
among them since Mr. Tillotson had been settled in the parish.--(Birch,
xviii.) This was in 1663. The contrast between Tillotson's style and
that of the Commonwealth preachers would in any case have been very
marked, the more so as Puritanism gained a strong footing in the eastern
counties.]

[Footnote 281: S. xlii., _Works_, iii. 275.]

[Footnote 282: S. vii., _Works_, i. 495.]

[Footnote 283: S. xxxiv., _Works_, iii. 65.]

[Footnote 284: S. vii., _Works_, i. 499.]

[Footnote 285: Pope's _Essay on Man_, Ep. 4.]

[Footnote 286: In _Guardian_, No. 55.]

[Footnote 287: 'Ground, &c., of Morality,' Chubb's _Works_, iii. 6.]

[Footnote 288: Dorner, iii. 81.]

[Footnote 289: M. Pattison in _Essays and Reviews_, 275.]

[Footnote 290: Quoted in F.D. M