God, being pleased to show us, that the good have something else to hope for and the wicked something else to fear, than the fortunes or misfortunes of this world, manages and applies these according to His own occult will and pleasure, and deprives us of the means foolishly to make thereof our own profit.
And those people abuse themselves who will pretend to dive into these mysteries by the strength of human reason.

They never give one hit that they do not receive two for it; of which St.Augustine makes out a great proof upon his adversaries.

'Tis a conflict that is more decided by strength of memory than by the force of reason.

We are to content ourselves with the light it pleases the sun to communicate to us, by virtue of his rays; and who will lift up his eyes to take in a greater, let him not think it strange, if for the reward of his presumption, he there lose his sight.
"Quis hominum potest scire consilium Dei?
Aut quis poterit cogitare quid velit Dominus ?" ["Who of men can know the counsel of God?
or who can think what the will of the Lord is."-- Book of Wisdom, ix.

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