[Footnote 267: Worthington's unhesitating acceptance of the tenet in question (_Essay on Man's Redemption_, 1748, 308) is particularly noticeable, because he was an ardent believer in the gradual restoration of mankind in general to a state of perfection.] [Footnote 268: _Life of Young_. Anderson's _British Poets_, x. 10.] [Footnote 269: Fielding's _Joseph Andrews_, b. ii. ch. 3.] [Footnote 270: Birch, T., _Life of Tillotson_, cliv.] [Footnote 271: Locke, J., _Reasonableness of Christianity_, Preface.] [Footnote 272: S. xxxv., _Works_, iii. 85.] [Footnote 273: Id. 84.] [Footnote 274: Id. and i. 511; S. cxl.] [Footnote 275: Birch, clvi.] [Footnote 276: _Bibliotheque Choisie_, tom. vii. art. 7.] [Footnote 277: S. ccxii., _Works_, ix. 84.] [Footnote 278: C. Leslie, _Works_, ii. 596-7.] [Footnote 279: Young's _Poems_, Sat. vi.] [Footnote 280: They complained that Jesus Christ had not been preached among them since Mr. Tillotson had been settled in the parish.--(Birch, xviii.) This was in 1663. The contrast between Tillotson's style and that of the Commonwealth preachers would in any case have been very marked, the more so as Puritanism gained a strong footing in the eastern counties.] [Footnote 281: S. xlii., _Works_, iii. 275.] [Footnote 282: S. vii., _Works_, i. 495.] [Footnote 283: S. xxxiv., _Works_, iii. 65.] [Footnote 284: S. vii., _Works_, i. 499.] [Footnote 285: Pope's _Essay on Man_, Ep. 4.] [Footnote 286: In _Guardian_, No. 55.] [Footnote 287: 'Ground, &c., of Morality,' Chubb's _Works_, iii. 6.] [Footnote 288: Dorner, iii. 81.] [Footnote 289: M. Pattison in _Essays and Reviews_, 275.] [Footnote 290: Quoted in F.D. Maurice's Preface to _Law's Answer to Mandeville_, lxx.] [Footnote 291: Channing and Aikin's _Correspondence_, 46.] [Footnote 292: Mackintosh's _Progress of Ethical Philosophy_, sect. i.] [Footnote 293: S.T. Coleridge, _Aids to Reflection_, i. 37.] [Footnote 294: Mackay, R.W., Introduction to _The Sophists_, 36.] [Footnote 295: _Ecce Homo_, 114.] [Footnote 296: G. Eliot, _Romola_, near the end.] [Footnote 297: _Ecce Homo_, 115; cf. Coleridge, _The Friend_ Ess. xvi. i. 162.] [Footnote 298: F.W. Robertson, _Life and Letters_, i. 352.] [Footnote 299: Cf. F.D. Maurice's Introduction to _Law on Mandeville_, xxiii.] [Footnote 300: S. ccxxiii., _Works_, ix. 275.] * * * * * CHAPTER V. LATITUDINARIAN CHURCHMANSHIP. (2) CHURCH COMPREHENSION AND CHURCH REFORMERS.