Whate’er then followed, he must have decreed.
If evil, then, be not against God’s will,
’Tis wrongly named, it is not truly ill.
Rather the world a chess-board we should name,
And God both sides is playing of the game:
Moses and Pharaoh seem opposed, for they
Do thus God’s greatness on two sides display;
They seem opposed, but at the root are one,
And each his part allotted has well done;
And that which men so blindly evil call,