And if we grant Nature this will, and this understanding, this course, reason, and power: "Cur Natura potius quam Deus nominetur ?" "Why should we then call such a cause rather Nature, than God ?" "God, of whom all men have notion, and give the first and highest place to divine power": "Omnes homines notionem deorum habent, omnesque summun locum divino cuidam numini assignant." And this I say in short; that it is a true effect of true reason in man (were there no authority more binding than reason) to acknowledge and adore the first and most sublime power.

"Vera philosophia, est ascensus ab his quae fluunt, et oriuntur, et occidunt, ad ea quae vera sunt, et semper eadem": "True philosophy, is an ascending from the things which flow, and arise, and fall, to the things that are forever the same." For the rest; I do also account it not the meanest, but an impiety monstrous, to confound God and Nature; be it but in terms.

For it is God, that only disposeth of all things according to His own will, and maketh of one earth, vessels of honor and dishonor.

It is Nature that can dispose of nothing, but according to the will of the matter wherein it worketh.

It is God that commandeth all: it is Nature that is obedient to all: it is God that doth good unto all, knowing and loving the good He doth: It is Nature, that secondarily doth also good, but it neither knoweth nor loveth the good it doth.