O thou, whose certain eye foresees
The fixed event of fate's remote decrees.
Odyssey, Bk. IV. HOMER. Trans. of POPE.
From thee, great God, we spring, to thee we tend,—
Path, motive, guide, original, and end.
The Rambler, No. 7. DR. S. JOHNSON.
Whatever is, is in its causes just.
Oedipus, Act. iii. Sc. 1. J. DRYDEN.
He that doth the ravens feed
Yea, providently caters for the sparrow,
Be comfort to my age!
As You Like It, Act. ii. Sc. 3. SHAKESPEARE.
Who sees with equal eye, as God of all,
A hero perished, or a sparrow fall,
Atoms or systems into ruin hurled,
And now a bubble burst, and now a world.
Essay on Man, Epistle I. A. POPE.
Yet I shall temper so
Justice with mercy, as may illustrate most
Them fully satisfied, and Thee appease.
Paradise Lost, Bk. X. MILTON.
God, from a beautiful necessity, is Love.
Of Immortality. M.F. TUPPER.
Forth from his dark and lonely hiding-place,
(Portentous sight!) the owlet Atheism,
Sailing on obscene wings athwart the noon,
Drops his blue-fringed lids, and holds them close,
And, hooting at the glorious Sun in Heaven,
Cries out, "Where is it?"
Fears in Solitude. S.T. COLERIDGE.
God sendeth and giveth, both mouth and the meat.
Points of Good Husbandry. T. TUSSER.
'T is Providence alone secures
In every change both mine and yours.
A Fable. W. COWPER.