Abstract
Three years before writing the Discourse of Freethinking Collins had already delivered an attack on ecclesiastical authority in the Church of England. This was in his pamphlet Priestcraft in Perfection.1 It was in the form of an accusation that the first clause of Article twenty, of the Thirty-Nine Articles — “The Church hath power to decree rites or ceremonies, and authority in controversies of faith” — was a forgery. It was part of the Sacheverell controversy of 1709 and 1710. It was to be followed, fourteen years later, by a much more imposing book, “An Historical and Critical Essay on the Thirty-Nine Articles of the Church of England.2
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John Lamb in An Historical Account of the Thirty Nine Articles, (Cambridge 1829), pp. 20–23, says that he is not convinced that the signatures of the Lower House were the original signatures to the original Articles, cf. appendix.
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O’Higgins, J. (1970). The Twentieth Article. In: Anthony Collins The Man and His Works. International Archives of the History of Ideas/Archives Internationales d’Histoire des Idées, vol 35. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-3217-9_9
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