CHAPTER XVI.

Theological Studies of Sir Isaac—Their Importance to Christianity— Motives to which they have been ascribed—Opinions of Biot and La Place considered—His Theological Researches begun before his supposed Mental Illness—The Date of these Works fixed—Letters to Locke—Account of his Observations on Prophecy—His Lexicon Propheticum—His Four Letters to Dr. Bentley—Origin of Newton’s Theological Studies—Analogy between the Book of Nature and that of Revelation 242