or otherwise injured, it is evident that it took place by means of the creature. Thus God makes or breaks one creature by means of another. Whoever falls, falls; whoever stands, stands. But it is different when God himself works, with his own arm. Then a thing is destroyed or raised up before one knows it, and no one sees it done. Such works as these he does only among the two divisions of the world, the godly and the wicked. He lets the godly become powerless and brought low, until everyone supposes