[Footnote 165: There were two anti-Deistical writers of the name of Chandler, (1) the Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield, and (2) Dr. Samuel Chandler, an eminent Dissenter. Both wrote against Collins, but the latter also against Morgan and the anonymous author of the _Resurrection of Jesus considered_. Sherlock's _Tryal of the Witnesses_ ought perhaps to have been noticed as one of the works of permanent value written against the Deists. Wharton says that 'Sherlock's _Discourses on Prophecy and Trial of the Witnesses_ are, perhaps, the best defences of Christianity in our language.' Sherlock's lawyer-like mind enabled him to manage the controversy with rare skill, but the tone of theological thought has so changed, that his once famous book is a little out of date at the present day. Judged by its intrinsic merits, William Law's answer to Tindal would also deserve to be ranked among the very best of the books which were written against the Deists; but like almost all the works of this most able and excellent man, it has fallen into undeserved oblivion. Leslie's _Short and Easy Method with a Deist_ is also admirable in its way.] [Footnote 166: But it is no want of charity to say that his Roman Catholicism sat very lightly upon him. He himself confesses it in a letter to Atterbury.] [Footnote 167: Pope was also clearly influenced by Shaftesbury's arguments that virtue was to be practised and sin avoided, not for fear of punishment or hope of reward, but for their own sakes. Witness the verse in the Universal Prayer:-- 'What conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do, This teach me _more than_ hell to shun, That _more than_ heaven pursue.'] [Footnote 168: See Hunt's _History of Religious Thought in England_, vol. ii. p. 369, and Lechler's _Geschichte des Englischen Deismus_, p. 219.] [Footnote 169: But Shaftesbury was bitterly opposed to one part of Locke's philosophy. 'He was one of the first,' writes Mr. Morell (_History of Modern Philosophy_, i. 203), 'to point out the dangerous influence which Locke's total rejection of all innate practical principles was likely to exert upon the interests of morality.' 'It was Mr. Locke,' wrote Shaftesbury, 'that struck at all fundamentals, threw all order and virtue out of the world, and made the very ideas of these (which are the same as those of God) unnatural and without foundation in our minds.' See also Bishop Fitzgerald in _Aids to Faith_.] [Footnote 170: Locke's _Works_, vol. iv. p. 96.] [Footnote 171: 'My lord, I read the revelation of Holy Scriptures with a full assurance that all it delivers is true.'--Locke's _Works_, vol. iv. 341.] [Footnote 172: Locke's _Works_, vol. vii. p. 166.] [Footnote 173: Locke's _Works_, vol. vii. p. 188, Preface to the Reader of 2nd Vindication.] [Footnote 174: Locke's _Works_, vol. iv. 259, 260.]