* We will not allow a providence to be _right_, unless we can comprehend the reasonableness of all its steps; and yet it could not possibly be right, unless its proceedings were as much _above_ our comprehension, as our wisdom is _below_ that which is infinite.
For if the _relations_ of _things_, and _persons_, and the fitness resulting from thence, be the _rule_ of God’s actions; then all the revelations that come from God, must have their fitness resulting from the relation his fore-knowledge bears to the _various states_, _conditions_, _tempers_, and _actions_ of free agents, and the various effects of every manner of revelation.
But if God cannot act worthy of himself in any revelation, unless he acts according to a fitness resulting from this relation; then he must act by a _rule_ that lies out of our sight, and his providence in this particular must be incomprehensible to us; for this very reason, because it has that very fitness, wisdom and goodness in it, that it ought to have.