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; and Wilkins, avowing that these tendencies are common
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attempts to meet them by a purely deistic argument, with a claim for Christianity appended, as if he were concerned chiefly to rebut atheism, and held his own Christianity on a very rationalistic tenure. The fact was that the orthodox clergy were as hard put to it to repel religious antinomianism on the one hand as to repel atheism on the other; and no small part of the deistic movement seems to have been set up by the reaction against pious lawlessness. [400] Thus we have Tillotson, writing as Dean of Canterbury, driven to plead in his preface to the work of Wilkins that
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to think the obligation of moral duties
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of the Commonwealth period, and on the other among the more cultured pietists of the Church who, banning
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in its stronger forms, cultivated a certain
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of their own. Religionists of the latter type were ministered to by superstitious mystics like Henry More, who, even when undertaking to
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the existence of God and the separate existence of the soul by argument and by demonology, taught them to cultivate a
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and to
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...
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[402] There was small psychic difference between this dubiously draped affirmation of the