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168 the Original of these Calamities (as Yesterday I sufficiently prov'd) is certainly from God: That is, not only from the chiefest good it self, but from the Author, cause, and Fountain of all other good whatsoever; from whom it is as utterly impossible that any evil should proceed, as that himself should be evil. That power is only benign and healthful, equally despising to receive and to do wrong, and whose sole and chief prerogative it is to benefit. And therefore those ancient and blinder sort of Men, conceiving something of the supream Being in their Minds; did rightly give him his Name from helping. Suppose you that he is exasperated, and that as one in a passion, he hurles down these evils as so many deadly Arrows upon mankind? No. Anger and Revenge are humane Affections, and being the effects of weakness, are found only amongst the infirm. But that ex- Rh