I. Its rise traced, 1640-1700. (pp. 119-125.) In this period the religious inquiry has a political aspect, as seen (1) in Lord Herbert of Cherbury (_De Veritate_ and _Religio Laici_) in the reign of Charles I. (pp. 119, 120.) (2) In Hobbes’s _Leviathan_. (pp. 121, 122.) (3) In Blount (_Oracles of Reason_, and _Life of Apollonius_), in the reign of Charles II., in whom a deeper political antipathy to religion is seen. (pp. 123, 124.) II. The maturity of Deism (1700-1740), pp. 125-144. This period includes (p. 127): 1. The examination of the first principles of religion, on its doctrinal side, in Toland’s _Christianity not Mysterious_, &c. (pp. 126-130.) 2. Ditto, on its ethical side, in Lord Shaftesbury. (pp. 130, 131.) 3. An attack on the external evidences, viz. On prophecy, by Collins, _Scheme of Literal Prophecy_, &c. (pp. 132-136). On Miracles, by Woolston, _Discourses on Miracles_. (pp. 136-138); and by Arnobius. (p. 143.) 4. The substitution of natural religion for revealed, in Tindal, _Christianity as old as the Creation_. (pp. 138-140.), in Morgan, _Moral Philosopher_. (pp. 140, 141.), and in Chubb, Miscellaneous Works. (pp. 142, 143.) III. The decline of Deism, 1740-1760. (pp. 144-153): 1. in Bolingbroke, a combined view of deist objections. (pp. 143-147.) 2. in Hume, an assault on the evidence of testimony, which substantiates miracles. (pp. 147-153.) Remarks on the peculiarities of Deism, the intellectual causes which contributed to produce it (pp. 154, 155); and a comparison of it with the unbelief of other periods. (p. 156.) Estimate of the whole period; and consideration of the intellectual and spiritual means used for repelling unbelief in it (pp. 157-161); the former in the school of evidences, of which Butler is the type, the mention of whom leads to remarks on his _Analogy_ (pp. 157-159); and the latter in spiritual labours like those of Wesley. (pp. 160, 161.) Lecture V. _Infidelity in France in the eighteenth century; and unbelief in England subsequent to 1760._ INFIDELITY IN FRANCE (pp. 163-194).—This is the second phase of unbelief in the fourth crisis of faith. Sketch of the state of France, ecclesiastical, political (pp. 164, 165,) and intellectual (partly through the philosophy of Condillac, pp. 166, 167), which created such a mental and moral condition as to allow unbelief to gain a power there unknown elsewhere.—The unbelief stated to be caused chiefly by the influence of English Deism, transplanted into the soil thus prepared. (p. 203.)