CHAPTER XXVIII.

HISTORY OF THEOLOGICAL LITERATURE FROM 1650 TO 1700.

Decline of Papal Influence 685 Dispute of Louis XIV. with Innocent XI. 686 Four Articles of 1682 686 Dupin on the ancient Discipline 686 Dupin’s Ecclesiastical Library 687 Fleury’s Ecclesiastical History 687 His Dissertations 687 Protestant Controversy in France 688 Bossuet’s Exposition of Catholic Faith 688 His Conference with Claude 688 Correspondence with Molanus and Leibnitz 689 His Variations of Protestant Churches 690 Anglican Writings against Popery 690 Taylor’s Dissuasive 690 Barrow--Stillingfleet 690 Jansenius 691 Condemnation of his Augustinus in France 691 And at Rome 691 The Jansenists take a Distinction 692 And are Persecuted 692 Progress of Arminianism 692 Courcelles 693 Limborch 693 Le Clerc 693 Sancroft’s Fur Prædestinatus 693 Arminianism in England 694 Bull’s Harmonia Apostolica 694 Hammond--Locke--Wilkins 694 Socinians in England 695 Bull’s Defensio Fidei Nicenæ 695 Not Satisfactory to all 695 Mystics 696 Fenelon 696 Change in the Character of Theological Literature 696 Freedom of many Writings 696 Thoughts of Pascal 697 Vindications of Christianity 699 Progress of Tolerant Principles 700 Bayle’s Philosophical Commentary 700 Locke’s Letter on Toleration 700 French Sermons 701 Bourdaloue 701 Compared with Bossuet 702 Funeral Discourses of Bossuet 702 Fléchier 703 English Sermons--Barrow 703 South 704 Tillotson 704 Expository Theology 704 Pearson on the Creed 704 Simon’s Critical Histories 705