A New Modern Philosophy by Eugene Marshall & Susanne Sreedhar

Author:Eugene Marshall & Susanne Sreedhar
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2019-03-07T00:00:00+00:00

Letters to Samuel Clarke

November, 1715

1 Natural religion itself seems to decay very much. Many will have human souls to be material: others make God himself a corporeal Being.

2 Mr. Locke, and his followers, are uncertain at least, whether the soul be not material, and naturally perishable.

3 Sir Isaac Newton says, that space is an organ, which God makes use of to perceive things by. But if God stands in need of any organ to perceive things by, it will follow, that they do not depend altogether upon him, nor were produced by him.

4 Sir Isaac Newton, and his followers, have also a very odd opinion concerning the work of God. According to their doctrine, God Almighty wants to wind up his watch from time to time: otherwise it would cease to move. He had not, it seems, sufficient foresight to make it a perpetual motion. Nay, the machine of God’s making, is so imperfect, according to these gentlemen; that he is obliged to clean it now and then by an extraordinary concourse, and even to mend it, as a clockmaker mends his work; who must consequently be so much the more unskillful a workman, as he is oftener obliged to mend his work and to set it right. According to my opinion, the same force and vigor remains always in the world, and only passes from one part of matter to another, agreeably to the laws of nature, and the beautiful pre-established order. And I hold, that when God works miracles, he does not do it in order to supply the wants of nature, but those of grace. Who ever thinks otherwise, must needs have a very mean notion of the wisdom and power of God.

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