ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses Thomas Chubb's and Thomas Morgan's view of divine providence and miracles, and explores how they explain about the nature of deism in the middle part of the eighteenth century in England. Morgan addressed what he saw as a common belief, but one that was held in error: those who viewed God and the divine relation to the Creation in the way that he and Chubb had described could lead only to atheism. For Chubb, God's general providence was so awesome that it alone was all God required to design, construct and vigorously sustain the universe. Moreover, divine power and the divine intelligence are voluntarily and immutably subject to the eternal and invariable rule that God had enacted with His general providence. God acted only for the betterment of humanity. Thus miracles that concern the good of all humanity are caused by God.
