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A View of the Principal Deistical Writers in England in the Last and Present Century. [another] to Which Is Added an Appendix by W.l. Brown
A View of the Principal Deistical Writers in England in the Last and Present Century to Which Is Added an Appendix by Wl Brown - another Author:John Leland General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1837 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: LETTER IV. Mr. Charles Blount's Notes on the Life of Apollonius Tyanieus, designed to expose Christianity. -- His Religio Laici copied, for the most part, from Lord Herbert. -- He had a chief hand in the Oracles of Reason. -- He attacks the Doctrine of a Mediator, as umvorthy of God. -- His remarkable Concession, that it is not safe to trust to Deism alone, without Christianity joined with it. -- Mr. Toland, another deistical Writer ; very fond of asserting Paradoxes. -- The Design of his Amyntor to render the Canon of the New Testament uncertain. -- He gives a large Catalogue ot spurious Gospels, and attempts to show that they were equally received and acknowledged in the primitive Times, with the Gospels which are now looked upon us authentic The contrary fully proved in the Answers that were made to him. Sir, Amon G those who openly avowed the cause of Deism, and seemed zealous to promote it, may be reckoned Charles Blount, Esq. In 1680 he published a translation of the two first books of Philostratus's Life of Apollonius Tyanseus, with large notes, wh ich are manifestly intended to strike at revealed religion. Apollonius, you know, was a Pythagorean philosopher that lived in the first centuiy, whose character and miracles were opposed by the pagans to those of our Lord Jesus Christ. Hierocles wrote a book to this purpose, which was answered by Eusebius, who hath plainly proved, that Philostratus was a vain and fabulous writer, and that his accounts are full of romantic stories and ridiculous fables : and whoever impartially considers Philostratus's book, which is still extant, must be convinced ...« less