Here is another tid bite of wisdom from Stephen Charnock on God and his control even over evil.
"If
we deny God the government of sin in the course of his providence, we must
necessarily deny him the government of the world, because there is not an
action of any man’s in the world, which is under the government of God, but is
either a sinful action or an action mixed with sin. God therefore in his
government doth advance his power in the weakness, his wisdom in the follies,
his holiness in the sins, his mercy in the unkindness, and his justice in the
unrighteousness of men; yet God is not defiled with the impurities of men, but
rather draws forth a glory to himself, as a rose doth a greater beauty and
sweetness from the strong smell of the garlic set near it."
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