Daniel Waterland - Works

Works

The unauthorised publication of a correspondence which had passed between him and John Jackson on the Arian tendency of Samuel Clarke's Scripture Doctrine of the Trinity drew from Waterland A Vindication of Christ's Divinity, Cambridge, 1719, in which he attacked not only Clarke, but Daniel Whitby. Whitby replied, and Waterland published an Answer to his reply, Cambridge, 1720. The Eight Sermons in Defence of the Divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ, his Moyer Lectures in St Paul's Cathedral, published at Cambridge in 1720, were reprinted at Oxford in 1815.

In 1723 appeared his Critical History of the Athanasian Creed (Cambridge), in which, with a thorough review of the then accessible evidence, he assigned the creed to the decade 430–40, and its composition to Hilary of Arles. A second edition was issued in 1728. Reprints appeared at London in 1850, and at Oxford, edited by John Richard King, in 1870; Waterland's argument was discussed by Joseph Rawson Lumby, History of the Creeds, 3rd ed. 1887.

He engaged in the deistical controversy with Scripture Vindicated (Cambridge, 1730–2, 3 pts.), a reply to Matthew Tindal's Christianity as Old as the Creation. To Edmund Law's Enquiry into the Ideas of Space, Time, Immensity, and Eternity (1734), Waterland contributed an appendix A Dissertation upon the Argument a priori for proving the Existence of a First Cause, in which, with reference to Clarke, he tried to dispose of the ontological argument in the supposed interests of orthodoxy. The Importance of the Doctrine of the Holy Trinity Asserted, London, 1734,; 3rd ed. Cambridge, 1800; and Review of the Doctrine of the Eucharist as laid down in Scripture and Antiquity, Cambridge, 1737, were other major works. A reprint of the latter appeared at Oxford in 1868; new ed. 1896.

Waterland's other works, besides sermons and charges, included:

• The Case of Arian Subscription Considered, Cambridge, 1721;
• A Supplement to the Case of Arian Subscription Considered, London, 1722; reply to Arthur Ashley Sykes.
• The Scriptures and the Arians compared in their accounts of God the Father and God the Son, London, 1722.
• A Second Vindication of Christ's Divinity, London, 1723.
• A Further Vindication of Christ's Divinity, London, 1724.
• Remarks upon Dr. Clarke's Exposition of the Church Catechism, London, 1730; to Sykes and Thomas Emlyn.
• The Nature, Obligation, and Efficacy of the Christian Sacraments Considered, London, 1730; and its ‘Supplement’ published the same year.
• Advice to a Young Student, London, 1730; 3rd ed. Cambridge, 1760; London, 1761.
• Regeneration Stated and Explained, London, 1740, 1780.
• A Summary View of the Doctrine of Justification.
• An Inquiry concerning the Antiquity of the Practice of Infant Communion.

These two last tracts first appeared posthumously with Waterland's Sermons, ed. Joseph Clarke, London, 1742, 2 vols.; 2nd ed. 1776.

A collected edition of Waterland's works, with a review of his life and writings by William Van Mildert, appeared at Oxford in 1823, 10 vols. The last volume is mainly letters; there are also Fourteen Letters to Zachary Pearce, ed. Edward Churton, Oxford, 1868, and Five Letters to William Staunton, appended to the latter's Reason and Revelation Stated, London, 1722. Four letters to John Anstis the elder are in Stowe MS. 749, ff. 273–49.