[67] Discourse Concerning Union Among Protestants, ed. cited, pp. 146, 156, 158. In the preface to his treatise, The Redeemer’s Tears Wept over Lost Souls, Howe complains of “the atheism of some, the avowed mere theism of others,” and of a fashionable habit of ridiculing religion. This sermon, however, appears to have been first published in 1684; and the date of its application is uncertain. [↑]
[68] Wallace, Antitrinitarian Biography, Art. 285. [↑]
[69] The preface begins: “It is neither to satisfie the importunity of friends, nor to prevent false copies (which and such like excuses I know are expected in usual prefaces), that I have adventured abroad this following treatise: but it is out of a just resentment of the affronts and indignities which have been cast on religion, by such who account it a matter of judgment to disbelieve the Scriptures, and a piece of wit to dispute themselves out of the possibility of being happy in another world.” [↑]
[70] See bk. ii, ch. x. Page 338, 3rd ed. 1666. [↑]
[71] Cp. Glanvill, pref. Address to his Scepsis Scientifica, Owen’s ed. 1885, pp. lv–lvii; and Henry More’s Divine Dialogues, Dial. i, ch. xxxii. [↑]
[72] Cp. Lecky, Rationalism in Europe, i. 109. [↑]
[73] The Reformed Pastor, abr. ed. 1826, pp. 236, 239. [↑]
[74] Work cited, ed. 1667, p. 136. The proposition is reiterated. [↑]