Even in the Church of England, as is manifested by its seventeenth Article of Faith, these doctrines have found favor.
Probably there was no point which brought down from the Catholics on the Protestants severer condemnation than this, their partial acceptance of the government of the world by law.

In all Reformed Europe miracles ceased.

But, with the cessation of shrine-cure, relic-cure, great pecuniary profits ended.

Indeed, as is well known, it was the sale of indulgences that provoked the Reformation--indulgences which are essentially a permit from God for the practice of sin, conditioned on the payment of a certain sum of money to the priest.
Philosophically, the Reformation implied a protest against the Catholic doctrine of incessant divine intervention in human affairs, invoked by sacerdotal agency; but this protest was far from being fully made by all the Reforming Churches.

The evidence in behalf of government by law, which has of late years been offered by science, is received by many of them with suspicion, perhaps with dislike; sentiments which, however, must eventually give way before the hourly-increasing weight of evidence.
Shall we not, then, conclude with Cicero, who, quoted by Lactantius, says: "One eternal and immutable law embraces all things and all times ?".