God is Not a Novice

Were our God a novice in the great art of governing the world,
and of the church in the bosom thereof; had he to this day
never given any proof of his infinite wisdom, power,
and goodness, in turning about the most terrible accidents
to the welfare and joy of his saints; we might indeed
be amazed whenever we feel ourselves sinking in
the dangers wherein the practices of our enemies
oft do plunge us over head and ears; but the Lord
having given in times past so many documents
of his uncontroverted skill and most certain will
to bring about all human affairs, as to his own glory,
so to the real good of all that love him, it would be
in us an impious and inexcusable uncharitableness
to suspect the end of any work which he hath begun.

~Robert Baylie~