The Best things in the World may be Misapplied; and the greatest
Blessings Abus’d, may become the Occasion to us of the most Judicial
Maledictions. What’s more necessary for the common Comfort and Benefit
of Mankind, then Understanding and Power; and nothing certainly is more
Pernicious then those Illustrious Qualifications Perverted. We are not
to Quarrel with the Heavens for Pestilential Influences, or Unkindly
Seasons; nor with the Earth for Poysonous Minerals and Exhalations; nor
with the Water for Inundations, and Shipwrecks; nor with the Fire for
Conflagrations. We must not take upon us to Dispute or to Correct the
Wisdom of Providence, but sit down Contented and Thankful, and with this
Reflexion upon the whole, that we are Indebted to the Divine Bounty for
all the Good we Enjoy; and that for the Evil we Suffer, we may thank our
Selves.