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the world is for us like a mirror in which we may contemplate Him in so far as it is expedient for us to know Him.
26. Do you not understand by "heaven and earth" all other creatures? Yes indeed; under these two words all are included, because they are all heavenly and earthly.
27. But why do you call God a Creator only, seeing that it is much more to uphold and preserve creatures in their state, than to have once created them? This term does not signify that God brought His works into being at a single stroke, and then left them without a care for them. We ought rather to understand, that as the world was made by God in the beginning, so now it is preserved by Him in its estate, so that the heavens, the earth and all creatures do no continue in their being apart from this power. Besides, seeing that He holds all things in His hand, it follows that the government and lordship over them belongs to Him. Therefore, in that He is Creator of heaven and earth, it is His to rule the whole order of nature by His goodness and power and wisdom. It is He who sends rain and drought, hail, tempest and fair weather, fruitfulness and barrenness, health and sickness. In short, all things are under His command, to serve Him as it seems good to Him.
28. But what about wicked men and devils? Are they also subject to Him? Although He does not guide them by His Holy Spirit, nevertheless He curbs them by His power, so that they cannot budge unless He permits them. He even constrains them to execute His will, although it is against their own intention and purpose.
29. What good do you derive from the knowledge of this fact? Very Much. It would go ill with us if devils and wicked men had power to do anything in spite of the will of God. Moreover we could never be at rest in our minds if we were exposed to them in danger, but when we know that they are curbed by the will of God, so that they can do nothing without His permission, then we may rest and breathe again, for God has promised to protect and defend us.
30. Let us now come to the second part. "And in Jesus Christ His only Son our Lord", etc.