True Gospel of Jesus Christ vindicated,’ give the best exposition of Chubb’s views.  ‘Our Lord Jesus Christ’ he writes, ’undertook to be a reformer, and in consequence thereof a Saviour.  The true Gospel is this:  (1) Christ requires a conformity of mind and life to that eternal and unalterable rule of action which is founded in the reason of things, and makes that the only ground of divine acceptance, and the only and sure way to life eternal. (2) If by violation of the law they have displeased God, he requires repentance and reformation as the only and sure ground of forgiveness. (3) There will be a judgment according to works.  This Gospel wrought a change which by a figure of speech is called “a new birth"’ (Sec. 13).  Like Tindal, he contrasts the certainty of natural with the uncertainty of any traditional religion.  He owns ’the Christian revelation was expedient because of the general corruption; but it was no more than a publication of the original law of nature, and tortured and made to speak different things.’[158] He repeats Tindal’s objection to the want of universality of revealed religion on the same grounds.  His chief attacks were, as has been said, made upon the New Testament.  He demurs to the acceptance of the Gospels as infallibly true.

Chubb expresses just those difficulties and objections which would naturally have most weight with the more intelligent portion of the working classes.  Speculative questions are put comparatively in the background.  His view of the gospel is just that plain practical view which an artisan could grasp without troubling himself about transcendental questions, on the nice adjustment of which divines disputed.  ‘Put all such abstruse matters aside,’ Chubb says in effect to his fellow-workmen, ’they have nothing to do with the main point at issue, they are no parts of the true Gospel.’  His rocks of offence, too, are just those against which the working man would stumble.  The shortcomings of the clergy had long been part of the stock-in-trade of almost all the Deistical writers.  Their supposed wealth and idleness gave, as was natural, special offence to the representative of the working classes.  He attacks individual clergymen, inveighs against the ’unnatural coalition of Church and State,’[159] and speaks of men living in palaces like kings, clothing themselves in fine linen and costly apparel, and faring sumptuously.

The lower and lower-middle classes have always been peculiarly sensitive to the dangers of priestcraft and a relapse into Popery.  Accordingly Chubb constantly appealed to this anti-Popish feeling.[160]

Chubb, being an illiterate man, made here and there slips of scholarship, but he wrote in a clear, vigorous, sensible style, and his works had considerable influence over those to whom they were primarily addressed.