the first place: That eternal minde therefore making all things out of a Principle of infinite love, and for the good and happiness of the things themselves, and seeing what he had made and how he had made them, and what was likely to be the lot of some of them from the necessary unperfectness of their Natures, if their future ill hap was likely to be more sharp and dolorous than all the good they should enjoy from him till that calamity befell them grateful and pleasant, his great compassion certainly would have persuaded him quickly to annihilate them; or rather his Wisdom would have judg’d
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