1622 G. Goodman Creatures praysing God To Rdr. sig. A2^v The Metaphysicks, naturall Philosophy, morall Philosophy, which are indeed the branches of naturall Theology and are incorporated into the body of our diuinity.

1675 R. Burthogge Cavsa Dei 408 Hear Hierocles concerning Natural Theologie, and perhaps Christologie.

1677 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. III iii. 102 The Philosophers,..assuming a new Divinitie or Religion of their own inventing, called..Natural Theologie.

a1770 M. Akenside Poems (1772) 350 (note) In these great points of natural theology, they [sc. the ancient mythologists] differ no less remarkably among themselves.

1802 W. Paley Nat. Theol. xvii. Concl. 579 These points being assured to us by Natural Theology, we may well leave to Revelation the disclosure of many particulars.

1840 T. B. Macaulay Ranke's Hist. in Ess. (1851) I. 129 Enigmas which perplex the natural theologian.

1877 E. R. Conder Basis of Faith i. 16 If natural theology be regarded as based on natural religion [etc.].

1901 Dict. National Biogr. Suppl. III. 118.1 Meanwhile, however, he was busy with natural theology, and the publication in 1850 of his first important work.

1989 Art Line Apr. 27/1 The best way ahead..is to return to an art based on a secular Natural Theology.