Thos. Emes, The Atheist turned Deist, and the Deist turned Christian. 1699. C. Lidgould, Proclamation against Atheism, etc. 1699. J. Bradley, An Impartial View of the Truth of Christianity. (Answer to Blount.) 1700. Bishop Bradford, The Credibility of the Christian Revelation. (Boyle Lect.) 1700. Rev. P. Berault, Discourses on the Trinity, Atheism, etc. 1701. T. Knaggs, Against Atheism. 1701. W. Scot, Discourses concerning the wisdom and goodness of God. 1702. A Confutation of Atheism. 1702. Dr. Stanhope, The Truth and Excellency of the Christian Religion. (Boyle Lect.) 1704. An Antidote of Atheism. (? Reprint of More). 1705. Translation of Herbert's Ancient Religion of the Gentiles. 1705. Charles Gildon, The Deist's Manual (a recantation). 1705. Ed. Pelling, Discourse concerning the existence of God. Part II. 1705. Dr. Samuel Clarke, A Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God, etc. (Boyle Lect. of 1704.) 1706. A Preservative against Atheism and Infidelity. 1706. Th. Wise, B.D., A Confutation of the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism (recast and abridgment of Cudworth). 1706. T. Oldfield, Mille Testes; against the Atheists, Deists, and Skepticks. 1706. The Case of Deism fully and fairly stated, with Dialogue, etc. 1707. Dr. J. Hancock, Arguments to prove the Being of a God. (Boyle Lect.) Still there was no new deistic literature apart from Toland's Christianity not Mysterious (1696) and his unauthorized issue (of course without author's name) of Shaftesbury's Inquiry Concerning Virtue in 1699; and in that there is little direct conflict with orthodoxy, though it plainly enough implied that scripturalism would injuriously affect morals. It seems at that date, perhaps through the author's objection to its circulation, to have attracted little attention; but he tells that it incurred hostility. [433] Blount's famous stratagem of 1693 [434] had led to the dropping of the official censorship of the press, the Licensing Act having been renewed for only two years in 1693 and dropped in 1695; but after the prompt issue of Blount's collected works in that year, and the appearance of Toland's Christianity not Mysterious in the next, the new and comprehensive Blasphemy Law of 1697 [435] served sufficiently to terrorize writers and printers in that regard for the time being. [436] Bare denial of the Trinity, of the truth of the Christian religion, or of the divine authority of the Scriptures, was made punishable by disability for any civil office; and on a second offence by three years' imprisonment, with withdrawal of all legal rights. The first clear gain from the freedom of the press was thus simply a cheapening of books in general. By the Licensing Act of Charles II, and by a separate patent, the Stationers' Company had a monopoly of printing and selling all classical authors; and while