Cannot believe the Gospel without believing that God is sovereign over all things

Grace in its whole progress must appear divine or sovereign; for when we lose sight of Sovereignty, we lose sight of Deity. It is of God that one man comes to the light, while another remains in darkness. It is of God that the love of one professor warms upon the trial and is accordingly crowned with consolation, while that of another waxes cold. - Robert Sandeman, An Epistolary Correspondence, pg. 89-90