6638.  Non minus hi furunt quam Hercules, qui conjugem et liberos
      interfecit; habet haec aetas plura hujusmodi portentosa monstra.

6639.  De orbis con. lib. 1. cap. 7.

6640.  Nonne Romani sine Deo vestro regnant et fruuntur orbe toto, et vos et
      Deos vestros captivos tenent, &c.  Minutius Octaviano.

6641.  Comment. in Genesin copiosus in hoc subjecto.

6642.  Ecce pars vestrum et major et melior alget, fame laborat, et deus
      patitur, dissimulat, non vult, non potest opitulari suis, et vel
      invalidus vel iniquus est.  Cecilius in Minut.  Dum rapiunt mala fata
      bonos, ignoscite fasso, Sollicitor nullos esse putare deos.  Ovid. 
      Vidi ego diis fretos, multos decipi.  Plautus Casina act. 2. scen. 5.

6643.  Martial. l. 4. epig. 21.

6644.  Ser. 30. in 5. cap. ad Ephes. hic fractii est pedibus, alter furit,
      alius ad extremam senectam progressus omnem vitam paupertate peragit,
      ille morbis gravissimis:  sunt haec Providentiae opera? hic surdus,
      ille mutus, &c.

6645.  “Oh!  Jupiter, do you hear those things?  Collecting many such facts,
      they weave a tissue of reproaches against God’s providence.”

6646.  Omnia contingenter fieri volunt.  Melancthon in praeceptum primum.

6647.  Dial. 1. lib. 4. de admir. nat.  Arcanis.

6648.  Anima mea sit cum animis philosophorum.

6649.  Deum unum multis designant nominibus, &c.

6650.  Non intelligis te quum haec dicis, negare te ipsum nomen Dei:  quid
      enim est aliud Natura quam Deus? &c. tot habet appellationes quot
      munera.

6651.  Austin.

6652.  Principio phaemer.

6653.  “In cities, kings, religions, and in individual men, these things are
      true and obvious, as Aristotle appears to imply, and daily experience
      teaches to the reader of history:  for what was more sacred and
      illustrious, by Gentile law, than Jupiter? what now more vile and
      execrable?  In this way celestial objects suggest religions for
      worldly motives, and when the influx ceases, so does the law,” &c.

6654.  “And again a great Achilles shall be sent against Troy:  religions and
      their ceremonies shall be born again; however affairs relapse into
      the same track, there is nothing now that was not formerly and Will
      not be again,” &c.

6655.  Vaninus dial. 52. de oraculis.

6656.  Varie homines affecti, alii dei judicium ad tam pii exilium, alii ad
      naturam referebant, nec ab indignatione dei, sed humanis causis, &c.
      12.  Natural, quaest. 33. 39.

6657.  Juv.  Sat. 13.  “There are those who ascribe everything to chance, and
      believe that the world is made without a director, nature influencing
      the vicissitudes,” &c.