It is not enough to render things equal to the will, that they are equal or alike in themselves.

Necessitarianism
In philosophy Collins takes a foremost place as a defender of Necessitarianism. Discourse of the Grounds and Reasons of the Christian Religion
In 1724 Collins publiAnthony Collinsd his Discourse of the Grounds and Reasons of the Christian Religion with An Apology for Free Debate and Liberty of Writing prefixed. His writings gather together the results of previous English freethinkers.

Anthony Collins (21 June 1676 – 13 December 1729) was an English philosopher and a proponent of deism.