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IX.
On the Divine Justice[29] .

Heaven is supremely knowing: we cannot deceive it.
Its knowledge of things here below doth not commence
The instant it shineth forth, and letteth us see that it knoweth them.
Virtue and vice never remain, the one without reward, the other without punishment.
There is no dispute, but about the time; sooner, or later it must come to pass.
 
[29]

P. Du Halde, 2. 155.