A sermon of Gods providence Very godly and profitableA sermon of Gods prouidence Very godly and profitable

The Peripatetics, and other sort of Philosophers, broached another opinion, teaching that those things which are above the Heavens, are moved, guided and governed by God himself: but those things that are under the circle of the Moon, are governed partly by chance and fortune, partly by the counsels and devises of men, & partly by a brutish▪ or senseless force of nature.

The Periapatetickes, and other sort of Philosophers, broched another opinion, teaching that those things which are aboue the Heauens, are mooued, guided and gouerned by God himself: but those things that are vnder the circle of the Moone, are gouerned partly by chance and fortune, partly by the counsailes and deuises of men, & partly by a brutish▪ or senceles force of nature.

There is a third opinion of the Stoics, which is that all things are ruled by fate or destiny, that is by a secret order and link of causes: in which chain, all things are so surely tied, that both God himself and man are straitened within those bounds.

There is a third opinion of the Stoicks, which is that all things are ruled by fate or destiny, that is by a secret order and linke of causes: in which chaine, all things are so surely tied, that both God himselfe and man are straighted within those bounds.

This was a very dainty opinion in the judgement of the Poets: who to excuse the weakness of their God Jupiter, feigned that he wept, for that he was so hindered by the force of destiny, that he could not set Sarpedon at liberty.

This was a very dainty opinion in the iudgement of the Poets: who to excuse the weakenes of their God Iupiter, fained that he wept, for that he was so hindered by the force of destiny, that he could not set Sarpedo at liberty.