Even the Atheists... readily acknowledge it for an indubitable truth, that there must be something... which was never made or produced -- and which therefore is the cause of those other things that are made, something... whose existence must needs be necessary.... Wherefore all the question now is, what is this... self-existent thing, which is the cause of all other things that are made.

The works...: containing the true intellectual system of the universe, sermons, & c (ed. 1829)