Lose With Truth And Right Rather Than

The Error Of The Ignorant Goes So Far As To Say That God's Power Is Insufficient, Because He Has Given To This Universe The Properties Which They Imagine Cause These Great Evils, And Which Do Not Help All Evil-disposed Persons To Obtain The Evil Which They Seek, And To Bring Their Evil Souls To The Aim Of Their Desires, Though These, As We Have Shown, Are Really Without Limit.

Even The Existence Of This Corporeal Element, Low As It In Reality Is, Because It Is The Source Of Death And All Evils, Is Likewise Good For The Permanence Of The Universe And The Continuation Of The Order Of Things, So That One Thing Departs And The Other Succeeds.

Do Not Consider It Proof Just Because It Is Written In Books, For A Liar Who Will Deceive With His Tongue Will Not Hesitate To Do The Same With His Pen.

I Find It Expressed In Various Passages Of Scripture That The Fact That God Knows Things While In A State Of Possibility, When Their Existence Belongs To The Future, Does Not Change The Nature Of The Possible In Any Way; That Nature Remains Unchanged; And The Knowledge Of The Realisation Of One Of Several Possibilities Does Not Yet Effect That Realisation. This Is Likewise One Of The Fundamental Principles Of The Law Of Moses Concerning Which There Is No Doubt Nor Any Dispute.

Management [ Providence ], Knowledge, And Intention Are Not The Same When Ascribed To Us And When Ascribed To God.