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[word continued from previous page: ousnes] & Providence of God in Governing huimane affairs thus to Suffer men to be Imposed on. It must be acknowledged that the Divine provid. has taken care that y^e greatest part of mankind. Shall not be Left ^under unavoidable Deception, so as to be alwayes abused by the mischievous agents of Hell in the Objects of Plain Sence. nev^r the less, til not for sinfull & silly mortalls, to prescribe rules to the most high in his government of the world = or to direct him how far he may permit Satan to use his pow^r. I am apt to think [lined through: ther is some] ther are some amongst us, who, if they had liv'd in Job's dayes and seen the Divel tormenting of him and heard his complaints of being scar'd with dreams, and [underlined: terrified with night visions] they would have Joynd with his uncharitable friends in confus= ing him as a most guilty person. But we should consider that the most High God does some= time deal with men in away of Absolute Love= rainly performing the thing w^c is appointed for them and many such things are w^th him. If He does destroy the perfect as the wicked and [underlined: Laugh at the tryall of the Inocent] Job. 9. 22. 23. Who shall enter into his Councells? Who has given him a charge over the Earth! or who hath disposed the whole world! Men are not able to give an ac= count of his ordinary workes, much less of his Secret Counsell and Dark dispensations of his pro vidence. They doe but darken Counsels by Words without knowledge whenever they undertake it