His counsel, nevertheless, was highly valued; and he seems to have won no small confidence from William in diplomatic matters.
Somers and Charles Montagu held him in high respect, and he had the warm friendship of Sir Isaac Newton.

He published some short discussions on economic matters, and in 1695 gave valuable assistance in the destruction of the censorship of the press.

Two years earlier he had published his _Thoughts on Education_, in which the observant reader may find the germ of most of Emile's ideas.

He did not fail to revise the _Essay_ from time to time; and his _Reasonableness of Christianity_, which, through Toland, provoked a reply from Stillingfleet and showed Locke in retort a master of the controversial art, was in some sort the foundation of the deistic debate in the next epoch.

But his chief work had already been done, and he spent his energies in rewarding the affection of his friends.