A review of the book in The Monthly Repository described the physician as "a man of sincere and deep piety; his creed was highly Calvinistic."[6] The work was said to be mournful at times, and another review in The London Literary Gazette said that "its author seems to have overshadowed and bewildered his mind by painful metaphysical contemplation of the greatest mysteries of religion; but he displays a Christian, if a too intense, anxiety to arrive at truth and satisfy his soul."[7] He was buried in Whitefield's Tabernacle, Tottenham Court Road in London.[8]