" Voltaire's  quote "If God didn't exist, it would be necessary to invent him" appears in a response to a hoax manuscript that was  probably written by this author.
This person's most enduring work claims that a pebble or a "spire of grass" can be a "profound mystery." Voltaire's  quote "If God didn't exist, it would be necessary to invent him" appears in a response to a hoax manuscript that was  probably written by this author. In addition to that version of The Treatise of the Three Impostors, this person wrote a  biography of John Milton, which was then defended in the Amyntor of this author, who also penned Socinianism Truly  Stated. Another work, which this author defended in Vindicius Liberius, claimed to "hold no orthodoxy but truth" and asserted that "there is nothing in the Gospel contrary to reason." This thinker coined the term "pantheism" in his Letters  to (*) Serena. For 10 points, name this so-called first freethinker, a prominent early deist who wrote the oft-burned Christianity Not Mysterious.
This person's most enduring work claims that a pebble or a "spire of grass" can be a "profound mystery.
John Toland [or Janus Junius Toland; or Seán Ó Tuathaláin]