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GOD forbid that we should admit that God has created anything which is
substantially evil, as Scripture says "everything that God had made was
very good." For if they were created by God such as they are now, or
made for this purpose; viz., to occupy these positions of malice, and ever
to be ready for the deception and ruin of men, we should in opposition to
the view of the above quoted Scripture slander God as the Creator and
author of evil, as having Himself formed utterly evil wills and natures,
creating them for this very purpose; viz., that they might ever persist m
their wickedness and never pass over to the feeling of a good will. The
following reason then of this diversity is what we received from the
tradition of the fathers, being drawn from the fount of Holy Scripture.
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