other in our several ages, growths, measures, and attainments, it is because we have little, low, dark, narrow, and contracted hearts, feel but little of the love of Christ, and are no more filled with that Spirit which is the spring, the centre, the circle, the band to all good spirits in heaven and on earth.” Jeremy White was a follower of Origen in his views of the ultimate safety and happiness of the whole universe, and he wrote a book,--published after his death,--the title of which sums up his theory: he calls it “_The Restoration of all Things_, or a vindication of the goodness and grace of God, to be manifested at last, in the recovery of the whole creation out of their fall.” [Sidenote: OTHER MYSTICS.--SIR HENRY VANE.] Sir Henry Vane is numbered amongst English Mystics, but he was more of the mystical philosopher than the mystical theologian, and the same may be said, to some extent, of Henry More; but the profession of the latter, as a clergyman, naturally directed his attention to Divinity properly so called, and how his mystical views influenced his religious life and character, will be shown in a subsequent portion of this volume. CHAPTER XVIII. The proofs of Christianity were noticed by Anglican Divines. Embedded in the rich quarry of Jeremy Taylor’s _Ductor Dubitantium_, may be found an able and eloquent summary of the external and internal evidences; and Hammond, in his _Reasonableness of Christian Religion_, points out the ground upon which men embrace it “in the gross, all of it together,” after which he descends in detail to the survey and vindication of those particular branches of Christianity which appeared to men at that time to be least supported. And it may be mentioned, as an illustration of the changing fashions of scepticism, that the points here considered by Hammond were--objections to God’s disposition of providence, founded on the prosperity of injustice and the calamities of innocence; and the exceptions taken to Christ’s commands because He enjoins the duty of taking up the cross--points which certainly would not engross the attention of Christian advocates in the present day. [Sidenote: PURITAN WORKS ON EVIDENCES.]