[87] Work cited, 2nd ed. pt. ii, pp. 106–15. [↑]
[88] Cp. Dynamics of Religion, pp. 86–87, 89–90. This explanation is also given by Bishop Wilkins in his treatise on Natural Religion, 7th ed. p. 354. [↑]
[89] Replying to Herbert’s De Veritate, which he seems not to have read before. [↑]
[90] Pref. to Obs. upon the United Prov. of the Netherlands, in Works, ed. 1814, i, 36. [↑]
[91] Cp. Dynamics of Religion, pp. 87, 94–98, 111, 112. [↑]
[92] As to the religious immoralism see Mosheim, 17 Cent. sec. ii, pt. ii, ch. ii, § 23, and Murdock’s notes. [↑]
[93] Compare the picture of average Protestant deportment given by Benjamin Bennet in his Discourses against Popery, 1714, p. 377. [↑]
[94] More, Coll. of Philos. Writings, 4th ed. 1712, gen. pref. p. 7. [↑]
[95] Compare some of the extracts in Thomas Bennet’s Defence of the Discourse of Schism, etc., 2nd ed. 1704, from the sermons of R. Gouge (1688). The description of men as “mortal crumbling bits of dependency, yesterday’s start-ups, that come out of the abyss of nothing, hastening to the bosom of their mother earth” (work cited, p. 93) is a reminder that the resonant and cadenced rhetoric of the Brownes and Taylors and Cudworths was an art of the age, at the command of different orders of propaganda. [↑]
[96] Cited by Bonnet, A Defence of the Discourse of Schism, etc., as cited, p. 41. [↑]