What work would Malevolents and Malecontents make in the World, if
they might but have the Governing of it; and if Heaven were not more
Mercifull to us, then to grant us our Wishes? Wherefore there must be
no Prescribing of Rules to the Divine Wisdom. What a Confusion would it
bring upon Mankind, if all those People that are Unsatisfied with the
Motions, Revolutions and Influences of the Celestial Orbs; the Course of
the Seasons, and the Providential Distribution of Heats and Colds, Rain,
Frosts and Sun shine, might be Allow’d to take the Government into their
own Hands? There needs nothing more to Convince us of the Vanity, the
Malice and the Folly of these Intermedlers with the Works and Orders of
an Over-ruling Power; and yet we must be making Articles and Conditions
forsooth, in Matters where we have neither Authority nor Skill: And
where, in spite of our Hearts, we must Submit, as in Duty and Reverence
we are obliged to Resign, and to Obey.