Therefore God supreme and true, with His Word and Holy Spirit (which three are one), one God omnipotent, creator and maker of every soul and of every body; by whose gift all who are happy through truth and not through vanity are happy; who made man a rational animal consisting of soul and body, who, when he sinned, neither permitted him to go unpunished, nor left him without mercy; who has given to the good and to the evil, being in common with stones, vegetable life in common with trees, sentient life in common with beasts, intellectual life in common with angels alone; from whom is every mode, every species, every order; from whom are measure, number, weight;⁠a from whom is everything that exists in nature, of whatever kind and of whatever value; from whom are the seeds of forms and the forms of seeds, and the motion of seeds and of forms; who gave also to flesh its origin, beauty, health, reproductive fecundity, disposition of members, and the salutary concord of its parts; who has also given the irrational soul memory, sense, appetite, but to the rational soul, in addition to these, has given intelligence and will; who — to say nothing of heaven and earth, angels and men — has not left even the entrails of the smallest and most contemptible animal, or the feather of a bird, or the little flower of a plant, or the leaf of a tree, without a harmony, and, as it were, a mutual peace among all its parts — that God can never be believed to have left the kingdoms of men, their dominations and servitudes, outside of the laws of His providence.