CHAPTER XIX.

HISTORY Of THEOLOGICAL LITERATURE IN EUROPE FROM 1600 TO 1650.

Temporal Supremacy of Rome 422

Contest with Venice 423

Father Paul Sarpi 423

History of Council of Trent 424

Gallican Liberties--Richter 424

Perron 425

Decline of Papal Power 425

Unpopularity of the Jesuits 426

Richelieu’s Care of Gallican Liberties 426

Controversy of Catholics and Protestants 426

Increased respect for the Fathers 426

Especially in England--Laud 427

Defections to the Catholic Church 427

Wavering of Casaubon 428

And of Grotius 429

Calixtus 434

His Attempts at Concord 434

High Church Party in England 435

Daillé on the Right Use of the Fathers 435

Chillingworth’s Religion of Protestants 436

Character of this Work 436

Hales on Schism 438

Controversies on Grace and Free will--Augustinian Scheme 438

Semi-pelagian Hypothesis 439

Tenets of the Reformers 439

Rise of Arminianism 440

Episcopius 440

His Writings 440

Their Spirit and Tendency 440

Great Latitude allowed by them 441

Progress of Arminianism 441

Cameron 441

Rise of Jansenism 441

Socinus--Volkelius 442

Crellius--Ruarus 442

Erastianism maintained by Hooker 443

And Grotius 444

His Treatise on Ecclesiastical Power of the State 444

Remark upon this Theory 446

Toleration of Religious Tenets 446

Claimed by the Arminians 446

By the Independents 447

And by Jeremy Taylor 447

His Liberty of Prophesying 447

Boldness of his Doctrines 447

His Notions of Uncertainty in Theological Tenets 448

His low Opinion of the Fathers 448

Difficulty of Finding out Truth 449

Grounds of Toleration 449

Inconsistency of One Chapter 450

His General Defence of Toleration 450

Effect of this Treatise 451

Its Defects 451

Great Erudition of this Period 452

Usher--Petavius 452

Sacred Criticism 452

Grotius--Coccejus 452

English Commentators 453

Style of Preaching 453

English Sermons 453

Of Donne 454

Of Jeremy Taylor 454

Devotional Writings of Taylor and Hall 454

In the Roman 455

And Lutheran Church 455

Infidelity of some Writers--Charron--Vanini 455

Lord Herbert of Cherbury 456

Grotius de Veritate 457

English Translation of the Bible 457

Its Style 457

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