[Footnote 124: _Boswell's Life_, i. 187, 101, ii. 166.] [Footnote 125: Hearne's _Reliquiae_, ii. 188.] [Footnote 126: Lathbury, 302.] [Footnote 127: Wake's _Three Tracts against Popery_, Sec. 3. Quoted with much censure by Blackburne, _Historical View_, &c., 115.] [Footnote 128: Lathbury, 300.] [Footnote 129: Nelson's _Life of Bull_, 405.] [Footnote 130: Bowles' _Life of Ken_, 38.] [Footnote 131: Lathbury, 297, 302. The custom is spoken of as frequent among the High Churchmen of 1710-20.--_Life of Kennet_, 125.] [Footnote 132: _Life of Kettlewell_, 130.] [Footnote 133: A.P. Stanley's _Eastern Church_, 410.] [Footnote 134: A.P. Stanley's _Eastern Church_, 453, 462.] [Footnote 135: _Life of Ken_, by a Layman, 808.] [Footnote 136: Burnet, writing in 1694, remarking on 'the present depressed and ignorant state of the Greek Churches,' speaks also with warm sympathy of their poverty and persecution--'a peculiar character of bearing the Cross.'--_Four Sermons, &c._, 198.] [Footnote 137: _Biographical Dictionary_, 'Ludolph.] [Footnote 138: Christopher Wordsworth, _University Life in the Eighteenth Century_, 331.] [Footnote 139: Secretan, 103.] [Footnote 140: Wordsworth, _University Life_, &c. 324-5.] [Footnote 141: Teale, 302.--This was in 1707. Archbishop Sharp gave his help in furthering this work.--_Life_, i. 402.] [Footnote 142: Evans' _Life of Frampton_, 44.] [Footnote 143: Secretan, ii. 220-2. Hearne's _Reliquiae_, ii. 230.] [Footnote 144: Pp. 309-59.] [Footnote 145: Secretan, 195.] [Footnote 146: Bowles' _Life of Ken_, 247.] * * * * * CHAPTER III. THE DEISTS. Of the many controversies which were rife during the first half of the eighteenth century, none raised a question of greater importance than that which lay at the root of the Deistical controversy. That question was, in a word, this--How has God revealed Himself--how is He still revealing Himself to man? Is the so-called written Word the only means--is it the chief means--is it even a means at all, by which the Creator makes His will known to His creatures? Admitting the existence of a God--and with a few insignificant exceptions this admission would have been made by all--What are the evidences of His existence and of His dealings with us?