An end of doctrinal controversies which have lately troubled the churches

§. 5. All God's after-works and all our Duties to him must be observed as respecting all these Relations of God to us, and our answerable Relations to him: For therein is the Nature, Order, and Harmony of them discerned to be Glorious: And unskilful confounding them is a spoiling and profaning or dishonouring of them. And thus the various acts of Providence must be set each in its proper place.

§. 5. All God's after-works and all our Duties to him must be observed as respecting all these Relations of God to us, and our answerable Relations to him: For therein is the Nature, Order, and Harmony of them discerned to be Glorious: And unskillful confounding them is a spoiling and prophaning or dishonouring of them. And thus the various acts of Providence must be set each in its proper place.

§. 6. God being the fons naturae, and having settled the frame of Nature (or created Beings and second Causes) in a fixed state and order, in which one thing is united to another, and adapted to its proper work in concurrence with the whole, we must not expect that God do ordinarily violate this his established Course: For his Works shall show somewhat of his Constancy, and Experience telleth us, that really thus He doth.

§. 6. God being the fons naturae, and having settled the frame of Nature (or created Beings and second Causes) in a fixed state and order, in which one thing is united to another, and adapted to its proper work in concurrence with the whole, we must not expect that God do ordinarily violate this his established Course: For his Works shall shew somewhat of his Constancy, and Experience telleth us, that really thus He doth.

§. 7. But we must not dream that God is involuntarily tied to his own Work, or hindered by second Causes, or the course of Nature, from doing what He would; but His free-will delighteth it self in this Constancy and ordered Course of Nature, and use of second Causes, which have