CHAPTER XXII.
THE RELIGIOUS LITERATURE OF THE GREAT REBELLION AND OF THE RESTORATION.
The English Divines.Hall.Chillingworth.Taylor.Fuller.

Sir T.
Browne.Baxter.Fox.Bunyan.South.

Other Writers.
THE ENGLISH DIVINES.
Having come down, in the course of English Literature, to the reign of William and Mary, we must look back for a brief space to consider the religious polemics which grew out of the national troubles and vicissitudes.

We shall endeavor to classify the principal authors under this head from the days of Milton to the time when the Protestant succession was established on the English throne.
The Established Church had its learned doctors before the civil war, many of whom contributed to the literature; but when the contest between king and parliament became imminent, and during the progress of the quarrel, these became controversialists,--most of them on the side of the unfortunate but misguided monarch,--and suffered with his declining fortunes.
To go over the whole range of theological literature in this extended period, would be to study the history of the times from a theological point of view.

Our space will only permit a brief notice of the principal writers.
HALL .-- First among these was Joseph Hall, who was born in 1574.