First Sentence

"WHAT ever is the Innocence and Infelicity of the present state, we cannot, without affronting the Divine Goodness, deny, but that at first we were made wise and happy; For nothing of specifick imperfection or deformity could come from the hands that were directed by an Almighty Wisdome; so that, whatever disorders have since befallen them, all things were at first disposal by an Omniscient Intellect that cannot contrive incptly; and our selves exactly formed according to the Idaa's of that Mind, which frames things consonantly to the Rules of their respective Natures."