On the truth, inspiration and
usefulness
of the sacred
scriptures.
scriptures.
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v10
1793-7) no great synoptic work has been attempted,
for Bogue and Bennett's History of Dissenters 1688-1804 (4 vols. 1808-12)
and Joshua Toulmin's Historical view of . . . Protestant Dissenters and of the
progress of free inquiry and religious liberty, 1814, are not comparable to
Neal's work as to breadth of treatment and documentary thoroughness, and
the same may be said of Stoughton's Religion in England, 1702–1800, 2 vols.
1878. To these works succeeded a lesser series of merely denominational
histories, and to these, again, the modern race of mere church monograph
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writers. (Burrage, C. , The Early English Dissenters in the light of recent
research, 2 vols. Cambridge, 1912, purports to reach only to 1641. ) Apart
from the literary activity of the Society of Friends (see vol. viii) the foun-
dation of the Congregational Historical society and the Baptist Historical
society promises some day to remove this reproach from dissent. The latter
society in particular, under the guidance of Whitley, Dr W. T. , is supplying
exactly what is required. But much of this preliminary work still remains to
be done before a broad synopsis on the lines of Neal's work can be attempted.
The biographical literature of dissent is, comparatively, abundant,
especially in Calamy, Edmund, Abridgement of Baxter's life, 1702: 2nd edn,
2 vols. 1713 and continuation 1727, 2 vols. ; inefficiently re-edited as The Non-
conformist's Memorial, 3 vols. 1802-3; see, also, Wilson, Dissenting Churches
in London, 4 vols. 1808-14. But the early portion of it (in Calamy especially)
stands greatly in need of a general searching revision such as Nightingale, B. ,
has furnisbed for Cumberland and Westmorland.
I. DENOMINATIONAL HISTORIES
A. Congregational
Dale, Robert William. History of English Congregationalism. Completed
and ed. by Dale, A. W. W. 1907.
Fletcher, Joseph. A History of the revival . . . of Independency in England.
4 vols. 1847.
Hanbury, Benjamin. Historical Memorials relating to the Independents
from their rise to the Restoration. 1839-44.
Waddington, J. Congregational History. 5 vols. 1869-80.
B. Presbyterian
Drysdale, A. H. History of the Presbyterians in England. 1889.
History, opinions and legal position, The, of the English Presbyterians. 1834.
McCree, Thomas. Annals of English Presbyterianism. 1872.
Murch, J. History of the Presbyterian and General Baptist Churches in the
West of England. 1835.
Wilson, J. Historical enquiry concerning the principles. . . of the English
Presbyterians, 1835.
C. Baptist
Armitage, T. History of the Baptists. 1887.
Benedict, D. General History of the Baptist Denomination. 2 vols. 1813.
Crosby, T. History of the English Baptists. 4 vols. 1738-40.
Douglas, D. History of the Baptist Churches in the North of England.
(1846. )
Fuller, J. G. Brief History of the Western Association. 1843.
Ivimey, J. History of the English Baptists. 4 vols. 1811-30.
Taylor, T. History of the English General Baptists. 2 vols. 1818.
Thomas, J. History of the Baptist Association in Wales. 1795.
Whitley, W. T. History of the Baptists in Cumberland, Lancashire and
Cheshire. (In preparation. ]
D. Unitarian
Brief History of the Unitarians called also Socinians. 1687.
Hebard, J. Historical sketch of Unitarianism. 1834.
Horford, B. Story of religion in England. - 1883.
Lindsey, Theophilus. Historical view of the state of Unitarian doctrine and
worship. 1783.
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520
Bibliography
Lloyd, W. Story of Protestant Dissent and English Unitarians. 1899.
New, H. Unitarian and Free Christian Churches in England. 1883.
Woolman, John (1720-1772). Works. Philadelphia, 1774.
Journal. 1775. With an introduction by Smellie, A. , and an appre-
ciation by Whittier, J. G. 1898.
II. TOLERATION AND REMOVAL OF DISABILITIES
The general history of the legislation on the subject of dissenters'
disabilities is fairly well covered in Skeats, Herbert S. , History of the
Free Churches of England, 1868 (continued by Miall, E. ); but the
literary side of the subject has not received the special and complete treat-
ment which it deserves. Schaff, P. , The Progress of Religious Freedom, and
Ruffini, F. , Religious Liberty, English translation, 1912, are too broad in
their sweep to be able to particularise the purely dissenting phase of the
literary side of this controversy; while the ordinary dissenting authorities
such as Bogue and Bennett, Waddington, Toulmin and Brook, B. (Sketch of
the History and proceedings of the Deputies appointed to protect the civil
rights of Protestant Dissenters, 1813) treat it too much as an isolated and
sectarian phenomenon.
The following may be cited among earlier writers or writings, Dissenting
or secular, on the subject of toleration:
An Humble Supplication to the King's Majesty. 1620. (Anonymous. )
Busher, Leonard. Religion's Peace. 1614. To which are appended Certain
Reasons against Persecution. Reissued by the Hanserd Knollys Soc.
1846.
Goodwin, John.
Persecution for Religion judged and condemned. 1615. (Anonymous. )
Richardson, Samuel. The Necessity of Toleration in Matters of Religion.
1647.
Robinson, Henry.
Sturgion, John. A Plea for Toleration. 1661.
Sion's Groans for her Distressed. 1661.
The Ancient Bounds: or Liberty of Conscience. 1645. (Anonymous. )
The Humble Petition of the Anabaptists. 1660.
See, also, bibliographies to vol. vii, chaps. V (Milton), and vii (Bunyan),
ante; vol. ix, chap. 1 (Defoe), ante; vol. viii, chap. XIV (Locke), ante.
III. THE ANTI-TRINITARIAN and Deistic CONTROVERSIES
The bibliography of the several successive phases of the anti-Trinitarian
controversy are covered by several general authorities. Wallace, R. ,
Anti-Trinitarian Biography, 3 vols. 1850 (vol. 1, Introduction); Hunt, J. ,
Religious Thought in England, 3 vols. 1870-3 (vol. II, pp. 273-8); Bogue, D.
and Bennett, J. , A History of Dissenters, 1688-1808, 4 vols. 1808-12 (vol. 11);
Curteis, G. H. , Dissent in relation to the Church (Bampton Lecture), 1871.
But none of these is complete. Several of the dissenting colleges possess
large collections of the pamphlet literature of this subject; but, probably,
the most comprehensive of these collections is in Dr Williams's Library,
Gordon Square, where a special catalogue of this subject, containing several
hundred items, has lately been compiled. The whole subject is at present
being specially studied by Colligan, J. H. , of Liverpool.
The literature of the deistic controversy is fully surveyed in Dr John
Leland's View of the Principal Deistical Writers, 3 vols. 1755; Stephen, Sir
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521
Leslie, History of English Thought in the Eighteenth Century, vol. 1, 1876;
;
Lechler, G. V. , Geschichte des englischen Deismus, 2 vols. 1841; Farrar, S. ,
A Critical History of Free Thought (Bampton Lecture), 1862; and also in
general authorities such as Abbey and Overton, The English Church in the
Eighteenth Century, 2 vols. 1878. As the dissenting contribution to this
controversy constitutes the chief claim of dissent to purely literary notice,
a list is appended here of the chief works by nonconformist writers :
Bennet, Benjamin.
On the truth, inspiration and usefulness of the sacred
scriptures. 1730.
Benson, George. The Reasonableness of the Christian Religion. 1743.
Browne, Simon. A fit rebuke. 1732.
Defence of the religion of nature. 1732.
Calamy, Edmund. Sermons on the inspiration of the holy writings. 1710.
Chandler, Samuel. Reflections on the conduct of the modern Deists. 1727.
A Vindication of the Christian Religion. 1728.
A Vindication of . . . Daniel's prophecies. 1728.
Plain reasons for being a Christian. 1730.
The witnesses of the Resurrection. 1744.
Doddridge, Philip. The Redeemer and the Sanctifier. 1736.
Of the Evidences of Christianity. In answer to [Dodwell's] Christianity
not founded in Argument. 1742-3.
Duchal, James. On the presumptive arguments for the truth of the
Christian religion. 1753.
Fleming, Caleb. Various Answers etc. to Thomas Chubb. 1738, etc.
Foster, James. A Letter to a Deist. 1729.
The Usefulness, Truth and Excellence of the Christian Religion. 1731.
Hallett, Joseph. A Free and Impartial Study of the Holy Scriptures
recommended. 3 vols. 1729-36.
The Immorality of the Moral Philosopher. 1737.
The Consistent Christian. 1738.
Harris, William. Two Sermons against Woolaston. 1738.
Jones, Jeremiah. A new and full method of settling the canonical authority
of the New Testament. 1726.
Lardner, Nathaniel. The Credibility of Gospel History. 1727.
Leland, John. The advantage and necessity of the Christian Revelation.
1764.
The divine authority of the Old and New Testament. 1738.
Remarks on a pamphlet. 1744.
Reflections on the late Lord Bolingbroke's letters. 1753.
An Answer to Tindal's Christianity as old as the Creation. 1733.
A View of the principal Deistical writers. 1754-6.
Lowman, Moses. Dissertation on the civil government of the Hebrews.
1740.
The argument from prophecy. 1733.
Morgan, Thomas. The Moral Philosopher. 1737.
Watts, Isaac. Three Sermons on the Inward Witness of Christianity, or An
Evidence of the Truth of the Gospel from its Divine Effects. 1730.
IV. WRITERS OF HYMNS AND RELIGIOUS VERSE
A. Congregationalists
Doddridge, Philip. Hymns. (Posthumous; ed. Orton, J. ) Salop. 1755. Re-
issued, with additional hymns, as Scriptural Hymns, ed. Humphreys, J. D.
Newton, John. Olney Hymns. 1779. (With his friend Cowper. )
1839.
## p. 522 (#548) ############################################
522
Bibliography
Watts, Isaac. (Of his six hundred hymns, many are still sung, and formed
part of his Horae Lyricae (1706), Hymns (1707), Divine Songs (1715),
and Psalms of David (1719). )
B. Presbyterians
Brown, Simon. Hymns and Spiritual Songs. 3 books. 1720.
Slater, Samuel (died 1704). Poems. 1679.
C. Baptists
Keach, Benjamin (1640-1704). Spiritual Melodies. . . Psalms and Hymns
from the Old and New Testament. 1691.
A Feast of Fat Things. . . Spiritual Songs. 1692.
Robinson, Robert (1735-90). Hymns for the Fast-Day. (Issued by Whitefield,
1757. See, as to these and others of like merit, D. of N. B. vol. xlix. )
Ryland, John Collett (1723-92). Life and Actions of Jesus Christ, by Way
of Question and Answer, in Verse. 1767.
Steele, Anne (1717-78). Poems on Subjects chiefly Devotional (1760).
Stennett, Joseph (1663-1713). Hymns in vol. iv of his Works, 4 vols. 1732.
(Originally publ. 1697–1712; version of Solomon's Song, 1700. )
CHAPTER XVII
POLITICAL LITERATURE, 1755–75
I. POLITICAL CONTROVERSY, 1754–75
A. Periodicals
The Auditor. June 1762-Feb. 1763. (Ed. Murphy, A. )
The Briton. May 1762-Feb. 1763. (Ed. Smollett, T. )
The Con-Test, Nos. 1-38. 23 Nov. 1756–6 Aug. 1757. (Ed. ? Roughead, O. ,
or ? Francis, P. )
The Monitor, or British Freeholder, Nos. 1-403. 9 Aug. 1755–6 Oct. 1763.
(Ed. ? Entick, John. )
The North Briton. 1762-3. (By John Wilkes and Charles Churchill. )
2nd edn, with notes. 3 vols. 1763. Continued 1768-9.
The Test, Nos. 1-35. 6 Nov. 1756-9 July 1757. (Ed. Murphy, A. )
Wilkes, J. C. The Political Controversy, or weekly magazine of ministerial
and anti-ministerial essays. 5 vols. 1762-3. (This includes reprints of
the issues for 1762-3 of The Monitor, The Auditor, The Briton, The
North Briton, and other papers. )
B. Separate Works
The most important tracts of this period (1763-1770) are reprinted in:
Almon, J. A Collection of scarce and interesting tracts. 4 vols. 1787-8.
Bath, W. Pulteney, Earl of. Seasonable hints from an honest man on the
new reign and the new parliament.
for Bogue and Bennett's History of Dissenters 1688-1804 (4 vols. 1808-12)
and Joshua Toulmin's Historical view of . . . Protestant Dissenters and of the
progress of free inquiry and religious liberty, 1814, are not comparable to
Neal's work as to breadth of treatment and documentary thoroughness, and
the same may be said of Stoughton's Religion in England, 1702–1800, 2 vols.
1878. To these works succeeded a lesser series of merely denominational
histories, and to these, again, the modern race of mere church monograph
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519
writers. (Burrage, C. , The Early English Dissenters in the light of recent
research, 2 vols. Cambridge, 1912, purports to reach only to 1641. ) Apart
from the literary activity of the Society of Friends (see vol. viii) the foun-
dation of the Congregational Historical society and the Baptist Historical
society promises some day to remove this reproach from dissent. The latter
society in particular, under the guidance of Whitley, Dr W. T. , is supplying
exactly what is required. But much of this preliminary work still remains to
be done before a broad synopsis on the lines of Neal's work can be attempted.
The biographical literature of dissent is, comparatively, abundant,
especially in Calamy, Edmund, Abridgement of Baxter's life, 1702: 2nd edn,
2 vols. 1713 and continuation 1727, 2 vols. ; inefficiently re-edited as The Non-
conformist's Memorial, 3 vols. 1802-3; see, also, Wilson, Dissenting Churches
in London, 4 vols. 1808-14. But the early portion of it (in Calamy especially)
stands greatly in need of a general searching revision such as Nightingale, B. ,
has furnisbed for Cumberland and Westmorland.
I. DENOMINATIONAL HISTORIES
A. Congregational
Dale, Robert William. History of English Congregationalism. Completed
and ed. by Dale, A. W. W. 1907.
Fletcher, Joseph. A History of the revival . . . of Independency in England.
4 vols. 1847.
Hanbury, Benjamin. Historical Memorials relating to the Independents
from their rise to the Restoration. 1839-44.
Waddington, J. Congregational History. 5 vols. 1869-80.
B. Presbyterian
Drysdale, A. H. History of the Presbyterians in England. 1889.
History, opinions and legal position, The, of the English Presbyterians. 1834.
McCree, Thomas. Annals of English Presbyterianism. 1872.
Murch, J. History of the Presbyterian and General Baptist Churches in the
West of England. 1835.
Wilson, J. Historical enquiry concerning the principles. . . of the English
Presbyterians, 1835.
C. Baptist
Armitage, T. History of the Baptists. 1887.
Benedict, D. General History of the Baptist Denomination. 2 vols. 1813.
Crosby, T. History of the English Baptists. 4 vols. 1738-40.
Douglas, D. History of the Baptist Churches in the North of England.
(1846. )
Fuller, J. G. Brief History of the Western Association. 1843.
Ivimey, J. History of the English Baptists. 4 vols. 1811-30.
Taylor, T. History of the English General Baptists. 2 vols. 1818.
Thomas, J. History of the Baptist Association in Wales. 1795.
Whitley, W. T. History of the Baptists in Cumberland, Lancashire and
Cheshire. (In preparation. ]
D. Unitarian
Brief History of the Unitarians called also Socinians. 1687.
Hebard, J. Historical sketch of Unitarianism. 1834.
Horford, B. Story of religion in England. - 1883.
Lindsey, Theophilus. Historical view of the state of Unitarian doctrine and
worship. 1783.
## p. 520 (#546) ############################################
520
Bibliography
Lloyd, W. Story of Protestant Dissent and English Unitarians. 1899.
New, H. Unitarian and Free Christian Churches in England. 1883.
Woolman, John (1720-1772). Works. Philadelphia, 1774.
Journal. 1775. With an introduction by Smellie, A. , and an appre-
ciation by Whittier, J. G. 1898.
II. TOLERATION AND REMOVAL OF DISABILITIES
The general history of the legislation on the subject of dissenters'
disabilities is fairly well covered in Skeats, Herbert S. , History of the
Free Churches of England, 1868 (continued by Miall, E. ); but the
literary side of the subject has not received the special and complete treat-
ment which it deserves. Schaff, P. , The Progress of Religious Freedom, and
Ruffini, F. , Religious Liberty, English translation, 1912, are too broad in
their sweep to be able to particularise the purely dissenting phase of the
literary side of this controversy; while the ordinary dissenting authorities
such as Bogue and Bennett, Waddington, Toulmin and Brook, B. (Sketch of
the History and proceedings of the Deputies appointed to protect the civil
rights of Protestant Dissenters, 1813) treat it too much as an isolated and
sectarian phenomenon.
The following may be cited among earlier writers or writings, Dissenting
or secular, on the subject of toleration:
An Humble Supplication to the King's Majesty. 1620. (Anonymous. )
Busher, Leonard. Religion's Peace. 1614. To which are appended Certain
Reasons against Persecution. Reissued by the Hanserd Knollys Soc.
1846.
Goodwin, John.
Persecution for Religion judged and condemned. 1615. (Anonymous. )
Richardson, Samuel. The Necessity of Toleration in Matters of Religion.
1647.
Robinson, Henry.
Sturgion, John. A Plea for Toleration. 1661.
Sion's Groans for her Distressed. 1661.
The Ancient Bounds: or Liberty of Conscience. 1645. (Anonymous. )
The Humble Petition of the Anabaptists. 1660.
See, also, bibliographies to vol. vii, chaps. V (Milton), and vii (Bunyan),
ante; vol. ix, chap. 1 (Defoe), ante; vol. viii, chap. XIV (Locke), ante.
III. THE ANTI-TRINITARIAN and Deistic CONTROVERSIES
The bibliography of the several successive phases of the anti-Trinitarian
controversy are covered by several general authorities. Wallace, R. ,
Anti-Trinitarian Biography, 3 vols. 1850 (vol. 1, Introduction); Hunt, J. ,
Religious Thought in England, 3 vols. 1870-3 (vol. II, pp. 273-8); Bogue, D.
and Bennett, J. , A History of Dissenters, 1688-1808, 4 vols. 1808-12 (vol. 11);
Curteis, G. H. , Dissent in relation to the Church (Bampton Lecture), 1871.
But none of these is complete. Several of the dissenting colleges possess
large collections of the pamphlet literature of this subject; but, probably,
the most comprehensive of these collections is in Dr Williams's Library,
Gordon Square, where a special catalogue of this subject, containing several
hundred items, has lately been compiled. The whole subject is at present
being specially studied by Colligan, J. H. , of Liverpool.
The literature of the deistic controversy is fully surveyed in Dr John
Leland's View of the Principal Deistical Writers, 3 vols. 1755; Stephen, Sir
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Chapter XVI
521
Leslie, History of English Thought in the Eighteenth Century, vol. 1, 1876;
;
Lechler, G. V. , Geschichte des englischen Deismus, 2 vols. 1841; Farrar, S. ,
A Critical History of Free Thought (Bampton Lecture), 1862; and also in
general authorities such as Abbey and Overton, The English Church in the
Eighteenth Century, 2 vols. 1878. As the dissenting contribution to this
controversy constitutes the chief claim of dissent to purely literary notice,
a list is appended here of the chief works by nonconformist writers :
Bennet, Benjamin.
On the truth, inspiration and usefulness of the sacred
scriptures. 1730.
Benson, George. The Reasonableness of the Christian Religion. 1743.
Browne, Simon. A fit rebuke. 1732.
Defence of the religion of nature. 1732.
Calamy, Edmund. Sermons on the inspiration of the holy writings. 1710.
Chandler, Samuel. Reflections on the conduct of the modern Deists. 1727.
A Vindication of the Christian Religion. 1728.
A Vindication of . . . Daniel's prophecies. 1728.
Plain reasons for being a Christian. 1730.
The witnesses of the Resurrection. 1744.
Doddridge, Philip. The Redeemer and the Sanctifier. 1736.
Of the Evidences of Christianity. In answer to [Dodwell's] Christianity
not founded in Argument. 1742-3.
Duchal, James. On the presumptive arguments for the truth of the
Christian religion. 1753.
Fleming, Caleb. Various Answers etc. to Thomas Chubb. 1738, etc.
Foster, James. A Letter to a Deist. 1729.
The Usefulness, Truth and Excellence of the Christian Religion. 1731.
Hallett, Joseph. A Free and Impartial Study of the Holy Scriptures
recommended. 3 vols. 1729-36.
The Immorality of the Moral Philosopher. 1737.
The Consistent Christian. 1738.
Harris, William. Two Sermons against Woolaston. 1738.
Jones, Jeremiah. A new and full method of settling the canonical authority
of the New Testament. 1726.
Lardner, Nathaniel. The Credibility of Gospel History. 1727.
Leland, John. The advantage and necessity of the Christian Revelation.
1764.
The divine authority of the Old and New Testament. 1738.
Remarks on a pamphlet. 1744.
Reflections on the late Lord Bolingbroke's letters. 1753.
An Answer to Tindal's Christianity as old as the Creation. 1733.
A View of the principal Deistical writers. 1754-6.
Lowman, Moses. Dissertation on the civil government of the Hebrews.
1740.
The argument from prophecy. 1733.
Morgan, Thomas. The Moral Philosopher. 1737.
Watts, Isaac. Three Sermons on the Inward Witness of Christianity, or An
Evidence of the Truth of the Gospel from its Divine Effects. 1730.
IV. WRITERS OF HYMNS AND RELIGIOUS VERSE
A. Congregationalists
Doddridge, Philip. Hymns. (Posthumous; ed. Orton, J. ) Salop. 1755. Re-
issued, with additional hymns, as Scriptural Hymns, ed. Humphreys, J. D.
Newton, John. Olney Hymns. 1779. (With his friend Cowper. )
1839.
## p. 522 (#548) ############################################
522
Bibliography
Watts, Isaac. (Of his six hundred hymns, many are still sung, and formed
part of his Horae Lyricae (1706), Hymns (1707), Divine Songs (1715),
and Psalms of David (1719). )
B. Presbyterians
Brown, Simon. Hymns and Spiritual Songs. 3 books. 1720.
Slater, Samuel (died 1704). Poems. 1679.
C. Baptists
Keach, Benjamin (1640-1704). Spiritual Melodies. . . Psalms and Hymns
from the Old and New Testament. 1691.
A Feast of Fat Things. . . Spiritual Songs. 1692.
Robinson, Robert (1735-90). Hymns for the Fast-Day. (Issued by Whitefield,
1757. See, as to these and others of like merit, D. of N. B. vol. xlix. )
Ryland, John Collett (1723-92). Life and Actions of Jesus Christ, by Way
of Question and Answer, in Verse. 1767.
Steele, Anne (1717-78). Poems on Subjects chiefly Devotional (1760).
Stennett, Joseph (1663-1713). Hymns in vol. iv of his Works, 4 vols. 1732.
(Originally publ. 1697–1712; version of Solomon's Song, 1700. )
CHAPTER XVII
POLITICAL LITERATURE, 1755–75
I. POLITICAL CONTROVERSY, 1754–75
A. Periodicals
The Auditor. June 1762-Feb. 1763. (Ed. Murphy, A. )
The Briton. May 1762-Feb. 1763. (Ed. Smollett, T. )
The Con-Test, Nos. 1-38. 23 Nov. 1756–6 Aug. 1757. (Ed. ? Roughead, O. ,
or ? Francis, P. )
The Monitor, or British Freeholder, Nos. 1-403. 9 Aug. 1755–6 Oct. 1763.
(Ed. ? Entick, John. )
The North Briton. 1762-3. (By John Wilkes and Charles Churchill. )
2nd edn, with notes. 3 vols. 1763. Continued 1768-9.
The Test, Nos. 1-35. 6 Nov. 1756-9 July 1757. (Ed. Murphy, A. )
Wilkes, J. C. The Political Controversy, or weekly magazine of ministerial
and anti-ministerial essays. 5 vols. 1762-3. (This includes reprints of
the issues for 1762-3 of The Monitor, The Auditor, The Briton, The
North Briton, and other papers. )
B. Separate Works
The most important tracts of this period (1763-1770) are reprinted in:
Almon, J. A Collection of scarce and interesting tracts. 4 vols. 1787-8.
Bath, W. Pulteney, Earl of. Seasonable hints from an honest man on the
new reign and the new parliament.
