Reformed Covenanter
Cancelled Commissioner
A universal effect, the sort which exists through creation, demands a universal cause, and this belongs to God alone.
Pieter van Mastricht, Theoretical-Practical Theology. Volume 3: The Works of God and the Fall of Man, trans. Todd M. Rester, eds Joel R. Beeke and Michael T. Spangler (1682; Grand Rapids MI: Reformation Heritage Books, 2021), Book 3.5.11.