of virtue, and by the abhorrence of vice and injustice.
"Does it suit the greatness of God," says the eloquent and philosophical bishop of Clermont, with that passionate and ex|aggerating force of imagination, which seems sometimes to exceed the bounds of decorum;
does it suit the greatness of God, to leave the world which he has created in so universal a disorder? To see the wicked prevail almost always over the just; the innocent dethroned by the usurper; the father become the victim of the ambition of an unnatural son; the husband expiring under the stroak of a barbarous and faithless wife? From the height of his greatness ought God to behold those melancholy events as a fantastical amusement, without taking any share in them? Because he is great, should he be weak, or unjust, or barbarous? Because men are little, ought they to be allowed either to be dissolute without punishment, or vir|tuous without reward? O God! if this is the character of your Supreme Being; if it is you whom we adore un|der such dreadful ideas; can I 〈◊〉〈◊〉
