An end of doctrinal controversies which have lately troubled the churches

§. 5. Therefore God may so far suspend some Operations on inferior Patients, as to confine them to the Capacity or Aptitude of the superior created Causes, as he doth in the ordinary Course of Nature: He shineth not by the Moon so much as by the Sun; nor in a cloudy day so much as in a clear; nor in the night as in the day; and nourisheth us not by every sort of Food alike, nor cureth alike by all Medicines.

§. 6. As God doth thus in Naturals, so may he do in Morals, or spiritual Changes: As he is the God of Kingdoms and People, he may use its Mercies and Judgments by Kings and Magistrates, and according to their good or bad Dispositions, as he did in the Death of Christ. He doth not use to govern Nations as happily by wicked, tyrannical, infidel Rulers, as by the good and faithful: Pagan Rome was more unhappy under Nero, Domitian, Commodus, He•iogabulus, &c. than under Nerva, Trajan, Adrian, Antonine, Alexander Severus: And the Empire was delivered by the fall of seven Tyrants, by a Constantine.

§. 6. As God doth thus in Naturals, so may he do in Morals, or spiritual Changes: As he is the God of Kingdoms and People, he may use its Mercies and Judgments by Kings and Magistrates, and according to their good or bad Dispositions, as he did in the Death of Christ. He doth not use to govern Nations as happily by wicked, tyrannical, in•i•el Rulers, as by the good and faithful: Pagan Rome was more unhappy under Nero, Domitian, Commodus, He•iogabulus, &c. than under N•rva, Trajan, Adrian, Antonine, Alexander Severus: And the Empire was delivered by the fall of seven Tyrants, by a Constantine.