By James A. Herrick
Concentrating on the works of lesser-known but influential Deists, the writer examines the 70-year polemic among the Church of britain and the English Deists, illuminating the rhetorical battle which raged among them. He contends that Deism owes its value to those expert controversialists.
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His Discourses were the most direct and damaging attack on the Christian miracles yet published. Their caustic satire provided a model for other Deists to emulate. Woolston's rhetorical career is explored in chapter 4. Collins wrote his A Discourse Concerning Ridicule and Irony (1729) in response to Woolston's many opponents. Collins notes that both revered classical authors and respected orthodox divines direct ridicule against their opponents. Also published in 1729 was the most famous orthodox Page 19 defense of miracles in its day, Sherlock's Tryal of the Witnesses.
He adds that it "encouraged a comparison of religions, and it made for the secularization of morality by declaring it to be the province of reason rather than that of the church (Buckley, p. 17). An Oxford scholar turned recusant priest, William Chillingworth urged in The Religion of Protestants, according to David Edwards, that "schismatics, heretics, even heathen Turks, could find that their good lives led them to salvation" (Edwards, p. 367). Later, Toland and Blount pursued a systematic comparison of religions to find an irreducible core of common elements, the elements of a natural religion.
Early in the century it became fashionable for gentlemen and their sons to make "the grand tour" of the Continent. James Force calls the tour a "crash course in comparative religion" which left many of the tourists suspicious, even contemptu- Page 3 ous of clergy and dogmatism (p. v). Clerics in the 1680s were openly mocked, as in these verses from A Satyr on the Parsons: Religion's a Politick Law, Devis'd by the Priggs of the Schools; To keep the Rabble in awe And amuse poor Bigotted Fools. And they, for good vitualls and Bubb, Will bellow their Nonsense aloud, And rant out a Tale of a Tub, To {fright} the ignorant Croude.