Abstract
In the same year as the Essay on the Articles there appeared what is usually regarded as Collins’ most successful book, the Discourse of the Grounds and Reasons of the Christian Religion.1 It takes up one of the themes of the Discourse of Freethinking, the suggestion of the unreliability of Scripture. In style and effectiveness it bears the same relationship to that Discourse that the work on free will does to Collins’ early philosophical writings, and the Essay on the Articles does to Priestcraft in Perfection. The public servant of 1724 was much more mature than the young man of 1713. However the picture one draws from Grounds and Reasons of its author is very different from that of the moderate puritan gentleman who seemed to have penned the Essay on the Articles.
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