As your Surgeons have their Instruments ready for sudden Occasions, so be you always furnish'd With Rules and Principles, to let you into the Knowledge and Extent of Things Humane and Divine; for these Two have their Reference and Connexion with each Other. The consequence is, that your Whole practice ought: to Turn upon this supposition : For without looking into the Nature and Administration of the Gods, you'l fail in your Behaviour towards Men; and thus the Reasoning holds backward, to the other side of the Argument.