more perfectly, act through nature and in accordance with natural law in accomplishing His purposes.27 Thus with regard to the accomplishment of God’s purpose through the agency of natural law, He not only wills an end but also the proper secondary causes productive of that effect. God does not violate natural law but natural law is not an immutable god; God alone, not His creation, is God. To effect an end God also ordains the proper arrangement of secondary causes (i.e., prayer).