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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
Divine providence in the laws of the union of the soul and body, and how through these laws God unites us to all His works. The laws of the union of the mind with Reason. By these two kinds of law societies are formed. How God distributes temporal goods to people through the angels, and inner grace and all kinds of goods through Jesus Christ. The generality of providence.
ARISTES. Ah, Theodore! How wonderful God is in His works! How profound are His designs! What relations, what combinations of relations had to be compared in order to give matter that first impression which formed the universe with all its parts, not for a moment, but for all time! What wisdom in the subordination of causes, in the series of effects, in the union of all the bodies composing the world, in the infinite combinations not only of the physical and the physical, but of the physical and the moral, and of both and the supernatural!
THEODORE. If the simple arrangement of matter, if the necessary effects of certain very simple and very general laws of motion appear to us to be something so marvellous, what are we to think of the various societies established and conserved as a consequence of the laws of the union of the soul and the body? How are we to judge the Jewish people and their religion, and finally the church of Jesus Christ?
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