This furnished my thoughts with many very profitable reflections, and particularly this one: How infinitely good that Providence is, which has provided, in its government of mankind, such narrow bounds to his sight and knowledge of things; and though he walks in the midst of so many thousand dangers, the sight of which, if discovered to him, would distract his mind and sink his spirits, he is kept serene and calm, by having the events of things hid from his eyes, and knowing nothing of the dangers which surround him.
Dit bragt mij op verscheidene nuttige opmerkingen, en bijzonder op deze, hoe oneindig goed de Voorzienigheid is, die den mensch zoo kortzigtig heeft gemaakt, waardoor hij, ofschoon te midden van vele duizenden gevaren, welke, zoo hij ze bespeurde, hem geheel verbijsteren zouden, volkomen kalm en gerust blijft, omdat hij de gevaren, die hem omringen, ziet noch kent.