 I hate this Doctrin from my heart and I believe both I have reason so to do, and all others who shall seriously ponder the horrid consequences which flow from it. It destroyes liberty, and dishonours the nature of man. It makes the second causes and outward objects to be the Rackets, and Men to be but the Tennis-Balls of destiny. It makes the first cause, that is, God Almighty, to be the introducer of all evill, and sin into the world, as much as Man, yea more than Man, by as much as the motion of the Watch is more from the Artificer, who did make it and wind it up, than either from the springs, or the wheels, or the thred, if God by his special influence into the second causes, did necessitate them to operate as they did. (Bramhall 1655: 60) 