AE 1158[2]
. . . everyone is capable of being reformed,
and that being reformed
is nothing else than being removed from evil loves.
AE 1159 [5]
. . . it is according to a law of order relating to reformation,
which is called a law of Divine providence,
that a person is not let into the truths of faith and the goods of love
except so far as he can be withheld from evils and held in goods
even to the end of life,
and that it is better for a person to be permanently evil
than that he be good and afterwards evil,
for thus he becomes profane.
It is for this reason that the Lord,
who provides all things and foresees all things,
hides the operations of His providence,
even to the extent that a person scarcely knows
whether there be any providence whatever,
and a person is permitted to attribute what he does to prudence,
and what happens to him to fortune,
and even to ascribe many things to nature . . ..
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