11:24 For thou lovest all the things that are, and abhorrest nothing which thou hast made: for never wouldest thou have made any thing, if thou hadst hated it.
11:25 And how could any thing have endured, if it had not been thy will? or been preserved, if not called by thee?
11:26 But thou sparest all: for they are thine, O Lord, thou lover of souls.
12:1 For thine incorruptible Spirit is in all things.
12:2 Therefore chastenest thou them by little and little that offend, and warnest them by putting them in remembrance wherein they have offended, that leaving their wickedness they may believe on thee, O Lord.
12:3 For it was thy will to destroy by the hands of our fathers both those old inhabitants of thy holy land,
12:4 Whom thou hatedst for doing most odious works of witchcrafts, and wicked sacrifices;
12:5 And also those merciless murderers of children, and devourers of man’s flesh, and the feasts of blood,
12:6 With their priests out of the midst of their idolatrous crew, and the parents, that killed with their own hands souls destitute of help:
12:7 That the land, which thou esteemedst above all other, might receive a worthy colony of God’s children.