But we look in vain for any common doctrine any common form of worship which belonged to the Deists as Deists.Their love for their own Church, and their perfect confidence in it, added both beauty and character to their css rounded corner border piety.Nothing again, can be neater than his answer to various objections by showing that those objections had been brought to light by Christians themselves.It was entitled 'A Discourse of Freethinking, occasioned by the Rise and Growth of a Sect called Freethinkers,' and was presently owned as the work of Anthony Collins, an author who had previously entered into the lists of controversy in connection with the disputes of Sacheverell, Dodwell, css rounded corner border and Clarke.Fervid as their Christianity was, it was altogether unprogressive in its form.Hearnian, 1710, css rounded corner border March 4, p.Leland was called to account, and half apologises for ranking Shaftesbury among the Deists at all.The press teemed with answers to css rounded corner border their arguments.A little tract, published towards the end of the seventeenth century, entitled 'The Growth of Deism,' brings out these points and as a matter of fact we find that for the next half century the minds of all classes were on the alert some in sympathy with, many more in bitter antagonism against Deistical speculations.He too, like Dodwell, rejoiced that from his position as a layman he could without prejudice resist what he termed a sacrilegious invasion of the rights css rounded corner border of the priests of the Lord.Toland being a vain man rather enjoyed this notoriety than otherwise but if his own account of the object of his publication be correct (and there is no reason to doubt his sincerity), he was singularly unsuccessful in impressing his real meaning upon his contemporaries.