good, that if some of them go out of the way, and even exceed all bounds, he makes even this to work for their good and profit; for they return to him, more humble and more teachable than before.” And if the matter be carried higher, and a question be moved concerning the first creation of man, Augustine meets that question thus;—“We most wholesomely confess, that which we most rightly believe; that God, the Lord of all things, who created all things ‘very good,’ fore-knew, that evil would arise
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