 There is a widespread agreement that Newton influenced Clarke. Newton was thirty years Clarke’s senior, and their relationship (post-1704) might best be thought of as a mentorship. Newton and Clarke likely held similar views about God’s role in the world, but Newton was hesitant to state these positions publicly, and he may have used the Boyle lectures to promote these views (Force 1984; 522–526). Many have thought he supported Clarke’s interpretations and defenses on matters scientific and also theological (Jacob 1976; 242). In private correspondence, such as the letters to Bentley of December 10, 1692, and January 17, 1693, he entertains views similar to those that Clarke would later proclaim. Whiston (1728) reports that when asked why he did not publicly announce them, Newton said, “He saw those Consequences; but thought it better to let his Readers draw them first of themselves,” at least until the “General Scholium” was published in later editions of the Principia. However, it is also possible that Clarke influenced Newton. Newton, at least, endorsed publicly views that had been previously published by Clarke, especially in the “General Scholium” of 1713, which was seen to endorse Clarkean arguments about the nature of God (Stewart 1996; Snobelen 2001, 14–18).