Every Indication Of Wisdom, Taken

Every Conjecture We Can Form With Regard To The Works Of God Has As Little Probability As The Conjectures Of A Child With Regard To The Works Of An Adult.

[i]f A Man Bred To The Seafaring Life, And Accustomed To Think And Talk Only Of Matters Relating To Navigation, Enters Into Discourse Upon Any Other Subject; It Is Well Known, That The Language And The Notions Proper To His Own Profession Are Infused Into Every Subject, And All Things Are Measured By The Rules Of Navigation: And If He Should Take It Into His Head To Philosophize Concerning The Faculties Of The Mind, It Cannot Be Doubted, But He Would Draw His Notions From The Fabric Of The Ship, And Would Find In The Mind, Sails, Masts, Rudder, And Compass.

In Every Case, We Ought To Act That Part Towards Another, Which We Would Judge To Be Right In Him To Act Toward Us, If We Were In His Circumstances And He In Ours; Or More Generally - What We Approve In Others, That We Ought To Practise In Like Circumstances, What We Condemn In Others We Ought Not To Do.

And, If We Have Any Evidence That The Wisdom Which Formed The Plan Is In The Man, We Have The Very Same Evidence, That The Power Which Executed It Is In Him Also.

The Wisdom Of God Exceeds That Of The Wisest Man, More Than His Wisdom Exceeds That Of A Child. If A Child Were To Conjecture How An Army Is To Be Formed In The Day Of Battle--how A City Is To Be Fortified, Or A State Governed--what Chance Has He To Guess Right? As Little Chance Has The Wisest Man When He Pretends To Conjecture How The Planets Move In Their Courses, How The Sea Ebbs And Flows, And How Our Minds Act Upon Our Bodies.