XXXII. If ever thou sawest either a hand, or a foot, or a head
lying by itself, in some place or other, as cut off from the rest
of the body, such must thou conceive him to make himself, as much
as in him lieth, that either is offended with anything that is happened,
(whatsoever it be) and as it were divides himself from it:
or that commits anything against the natural law of mutual correspondence,
and society among men: or, he that, commits any act of uncharitableness.
Whosoever thou art, thou art such, thou art cast forth I know not
whither out of the general unity, which is according to nature.
Thou went born indeed a part, but now thou hast cut thyself off.
However, herein is matter of joy and exultation, that thou mayst be
united again. God bath not granted it unto any other part, that once
separated and cut off, it might be reunited, and come together again.
But, behold, that GOODNESS how great and immense it is! which hath
so much esteemed MAN. As at first be was so made, that he needed not,
except he would himself, have divided himself from the whole;
so once divided and cut off, IT hath so provided and ordered it,
that if he would himself, he might return, and grow together again,
and be admitted into its former rank and place of a part,
as he was before.

XXXIII. As almost all her other faculties and properties
the nature of the universe bath imparted unto every
reasonable creature, so this in particular we have received
from her, that as whatsoever doth oppose itself unto her,
and doth withstand her in her purposes and intentions, she doth,
though against its will and intention, bring it about to herself,
to serve herself of it in the execution of her own destinated ends;
and so by this though not intended co-operation of it with
herself makes it part of herself whether it will or no.