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204 any Man enquire, after any force or power; he is ignorant of the Divine Nature. For it is necessary that every cause be both before and greater than its effect; but than God and his Will, there is nothing either before or greater. There is therefore no cause of it. God strikes, and God passes by; what would you have more? As Salvian sayes piously and truly; the will of God is the perfection of Justice: But you will say, we desire some reason of this inequality from, whom? from God? To whom alone it is lawful to do whatsoever he pleases, and who is pleased to do nothing but what is lawful? Shall a Servant call his Master; or a Subject his Prince to account? The one would call it an affront; and the other Rebellion: and will you be more insolent against God himself? Away with this perverse curiosity! This reason doth not otherwise appear to be one, than because it may be rendred to none. Rh