[8.] To Des Maizeaux (24 June 1727): B. M. Sloane MSS. 4282, ff. 218-219.
[9.] For the dating of this work, see the Daily Post (31 January 1728).
[10.] For Swift’s satire, see Mr. C---ns’s Discourse of Free-Thinking, Put into plain English, by way of Abstract, for the Use of the Poor. For Bentley’s devastating probe of Collins’s scholarly inadequacies, see his Remarks on the Discourse of Free-Thinking. By Phileleutherus Lipsiensis. Both works appeared in 1713.
[11.] Scheme, pp. 432-433.
[12.] Edward Chandler, A Defence of Christianity from the Prophecies of the Old Testament (London, 1725), p. ii.
[13.] A Letter to Dr. Rogers, p. 89.
[14.] A Vindication of the Divine Attributes (London, 1710), p. 24.
[15.] Robert Jenkin, A Brief Confutation of the Pretences against Natural and Revealed Religion (London, 1702), p. 40.
[16.] For Collins on his own rhetorical skills, see Scheme, p. 402; William Warburton, Divine Legation of Moses, Demonstrated (London, 1846), III, 199.
[17.] Jenkin, Brief Confutation, p. 51; for the letter (1 July 1717), see B. M. Sloane MSS. 4282, f. 137.