 The Antidote deserves to be better known as one of the earliest contributions to what later became a vigorous tradition in British natural philosophy, namely natural theology. Although there is a sense in which natural theology, or the attempt to establish the existence and attributes of God by studying nature, can be found among Thomas Aquinas’s five proofs of the existence of God, it was only in the seventeenth century that this enterprise began to be worked out in detail, usually alongside the promotion of the new atomistic philosophies which seemed to offer the best alternative to the traditional “hand-maiden” to Christian theology, Aristotelianism. The very first contributions to natural theology, published long before the tradition’s Newtonian heyday, were Walter Charleton’s Darknes of Atheism dispelled by the Light of Nature (1652), and More’s Antidote (Leech 2013). More even prefigured the much later argument of William Paley that depended upon finding a watch in an uninhabited place: 