Note 038
Erasmus may be considered as the father of
rational theology. After a slumber of a hundred years, it
was revived by the Arminians of Holland, Grotius, Limborch,
and Le Clerc; in England by Chillingworth, the
latitudinarians of Cambridge, (Burnet, Hist. of Own Times,
vol. i. p. 261 - 268, octavo edition.) Tillotson, Clarke,
Hoadley, &c.]
The History Of The Decline And
Fall Of The Roman Empire
—Fall In The East
—Chapter 54