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"Take a straight stick, and put it into the water; then it will seem
crooked. Why? Because we look upon it through two mediums, air and water...Thus
the proceedings of God, in His justice, which in themselves are straight,
...seem unto us crooked: that wicked men should prosper, and good men be
afflicted; that the Israelites should make the bricks, and the Egyptians
dwell in the houses; that servants should ride on horseback, and princes
go on foot: these are things that make the best Christians stagger in their
judgements. And why? Because they look upon God's proceedings through a
double medium of flesh and spirit, so that all things seem to go cross,
though indeed they go right enough. And hence it is that God's proceedings,
in His justice, are not so well discerned, the eyes of man alone being not
competent judges thereof."
-- Thomas Fuller (1608-1661)
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