_ 145 _ what the heart cannot conceal, concerning the pleasure I felt in my soul when I learned of the success of the affairs you went there to negotiate.(A) The fact that you succeeded with everything, turning out the opposite(B) of what the governors here had expected, was no surprise to me, nor would it have been any less surprising if it had worked out the way it was envisaged here, because I know that chance and fortune are to be found in all things. It does not take much for the operations of this inferior machine to be unstable, which exists in continuous motion and never remains static. Only God, who permanently inhabits eternity(C), is constant. It is He who makes deficient causes produce necessary effects and gently, without force, arranges everything(D) with His providence, so as not to subvert the free will that we possess. From Him, we should then hope with profound faith for peace and the spread of Christendom. For through Him, monarchies are subdued, and he reduces them to tetrarchies, which are domains a quarter the size of a (A) Cf. doc. 26, 22. (B) Cf. doc. 21, 2. (C) Cf. Isaiah 57, 15. (D) Cf. Wisdom 8,1.
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