The Scheme of Christian And Philosophical Necessity Asserted in Opposition to
The Scheme of Christian And Philosophical Necessity Asserted in Opposition to
Augustus Montague Toplady
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Is not the adorable Creator of the World, the Governor of it too ? Or has He only built a Sta. Gc, for Fortune to dance upon ? Does Almighty Providence do no more -than hold the DiftafF, while Co?itinge7tcy (i. E. While Nothing) fpins the Threads, and wreathes them into a Line, for the First Cause (very falfely fo called, if this be the Cafe !) to wind upon his Reel, and turn to the beft Account He can ? Arminians may affirm it. But God forbid, that I fl^ould ever believe it. For my own Part, I... folemnly profefs, before God, Angels, and Men, that I am not confcious of my being endued with that Self-determining Power, which Arminianifm afcribes to me as an Individual of the Human Species. Nay, I am clearly certain, that I have it not. I am alfo equally certain, that I do not wijh to have it : and that, was it pofTible for my Creator to make me an offer of transferring the Determination of any one Event, from His own Will to mine j it would be both my Duty and my Wifdom, to entreat, that the Sceptre might ftill remain with Himfelf, and that I might having nothing to do in the Diredion of a fingle Incident, or of fo much as a fingle Circumftance.
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