Collins, Anthony, an English deist, an intimate friend of Locke; his principal works were “Discourse on Freethinking,” “Philosophical Inquiry into Liberty and Necessity,” and “Grounds and Reasons of the Christian Religion,” which gave rise to much controversy; he was a necessitarian, and argued against revelation (1676‒1729).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Collingwood, Cuthbert, Lord * Collins, Mortimer