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Toplady, after he had seen Olivers, wrote: 'To say the truth, I am glad I saw Mr. It will be remembered that the Deistical controversy was conducted with considerable acrimony on both sides; but the Deistical and anti-Deistical literature is amenity itself when compared with the bitterness and scurrility with which the Calvinistic controversy was carried on.
'You assert, he says in effect, 'that the law of nature is absolutely perfect and absolutely certain; I will show you that precisely the same kind of difficulties are found in nature as you find in revelation. Butler uttered no abuse, descended to no personalities such as spoiled too many of the anti-Deistical writings; but his book shows that his mind was positively steeped in Deistical literature.
From the extracts given above, it will be seen how far in this system Deism had drifted away from its old moorings. After Bolingbroke no Deistical writing, properly so called, was published in England. To attempt even to enumerate the works of all the anti-Deistical writers would fill many pages.
He hit, and hit very forcibly, a blot which belonged to almost all writers in common who took part in this controversy. The great deficiency of the age a want of spiritual earnestness, an exclusive regard to the intellectual, to the ignoring of the emotional element of our nature nowhere appears more glaringly than in the Deistical and anti-Deistical literature.
Moreover, if the Deists did no other good, they at least brought out the full strength of the Christian cause, which otherwise might have lain dormant. Although much of the anti-Deistical literature perished with the occasion which called it forth, there is yet a residuum which will be immortal.
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