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