An end of doctrinal controversies which have lately troubled the churches

§. 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 ⟨p. 73⟩still all their being, force and order continued by Him.

§. 8. And the number and operations of second Causes are so unknown to us, that when things seem Miracles to us, it is hard for us to say, that God useth no second Cause in effecting them. But it is enough to the use of Miracles to know that their extraordinary production hath an answerable extraordinary use and signification of God's Will.