[7] We can generally fix the date of Rogers's _Eight Sermons_ within the first two months of 1727 because it was answered early by Samuel Chandler's _Reflections on the Conduct of the Modern Deists_. (See note 4.) For the dating of Collins's rebuttal, see the _Monthly Catalogue_, No. 49 (May 1727). [8] To Des Maizeaux (24 June 1727): B. M. Sloane MSS. 4282, ff. 218-219. [9] For the dating of this work, see the _Daily Post_ (31 January 1728). [10] For Swift's satire, see _Mr. C---ns's Discourse of Free-Thinking, Put into plain English, by way of Abstract, for the Use of the Poor_. For Bentley's devastating probe of Collins's scholarly inadequacies, see his _Remarks on the Discourse of Free-Thinking. By Phileleutherus Lipsiensis_. Both works appeared in 1713. [11] _Scheme_, pp. 432-433. [12] Edward Chandler, _A Defence of Christianity from the Prophecies of the Old Testament_ (London, 1725), p. ii. [13] _A Letter to Dr. Rogers_, p. 89. [14] _A Vindication of the Divine Attributes_ (London, 1710), p. 24. [15] Robert Jenkin, _A Brief Confutation of the Pretences against Natural and Revealed Religion_ (London, 1702), p. 40. [16] For Collins on his own rhetorical skills, see _Scheme_, p. 402; William Warburton, _Divine Legation of Moses, Demonstrated_ (London, 1846), III, 199. [17] Jenkin, _Brief Confutation_, p. 51; for the letter (1 July 1717), see B. M. Sloane MSS. 4282, f. 137. [18] Pp. 46-99. [19] See, for example, the statement of John Conybeare, Bishop of Bristol, in Joseph Spence, _Observations, Anecdotes, and Characters of Books and Men_, ed. James M. Osborn (Oxford, 1966), I, sect. 992. [20] _Essay_, pp. 329-333 (for Whiston's statement of sources); pp. 334-335 (for his defense of literal interpretation). The bracketed material indicates Whiston's manuscript emendations of his own printed text; see the British Museum's copy of the _Essay_ (873. 1. 10) which originally belonged to the mathematician. See Collins, _Grounds and Reasons_, pp. 98-99, for the summary of Whiston's attack upon allegorical interpretation. [21] _Grounds and Reasons_, pp. 20, 48-50. [22] This terse summary of the persona's argument was correctly made by Warburton, III, 232. [23] _Scheme_, p. 391. [24] _Discourse of Free-Thinking_, pp. 15-17, 38, 171. [25] _Eight Sermons_, pp. 1, lxi. [26] Marshall, pp. 301, 337. For Samuel Chandler's contribution, see his _Reflections on the Conduct of the Modern Deists_ (London, 1727); for Chubb's contribution see _Some Short Reflections on the Grounds and Extent of Authority and Liberty, With respect to the Civil Government_ (London, 1728).