As soon as I discovered that these doctrines were not only consistent with reason, but themselves very reason, I returned at once to the literal interpretation of the Scriptures, and to the Faith.
As to Dr.Samuel Clarke, the fact is, every generation has its one or more over-rated men.

Clarke was such in the reign of George I.; Dr.
Johnson eminently so in that of George III.; Lord Byron being the star now in the ascendant.
In every religious and moral use of the word, God, taken absolutely, that is, not as a God, or the God, but as God, a relativity, a distinction in kind 'ab omni quod non est Deus', is so essentially implied, that it is a matter of perfect indifference, whether we assert a world without God, or make God the world.

The one is as truly Atheism as the other.

In fact, for all moral and practical purposes they are the same position differently expressed; for whether I say, God is the world, or the world is God, the inevitable conclusion, the sense and import is, that there is no other God than the world, that is, there is no other meaning to the term God.

Whatever you may mean by, or choose to believe of, the world, that and that alone you mean by, and believe of, God.