To restrain or lessen human evils, and render them tolerable, is no small effort of the wisdom of man; but the wisdom of God has brought out of greatest possible evil, the greatest possible good. He has made the apostacy of angels, the malice of devils, and the rebellion of man, the occasion of exhibiting all his glorious perfections, and especially his wisdom, to the utmost advantage. Nothing in all the world can be so evil, so detestable as sin; nothing so hurtful and horrible as its effects: and yet it has given occasion for the manifestation of divine wisdom, holiness, justice, patience, and mercy, beyond what we can conceive would have been possible, had not sin entered into the world.
George Burder — Village Sermons; or, Ninety-One Plain and Short Discourses on the Principal Doctrines of the Gospel, seven volumes in three, vol. 3, Woodward's eighth corrected edition (Philadelphia: W. W. Woodward, 1818), Sermon LXVIII, "The Wisdom of God" (Rom. 16:27), p. 31
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