"You must therefore be content to consider that unspeakable kind of mercy, wherewith it pleased Almighty God to overshadow me, after my conversion, even in all temporal respects also as well as others; that so you may discern how gracious and good a master God Almighty is, and how worthy he is to be served by the whole world; since he vouchsafes to deal so tenderly with them, who, by his holy grace (without which they cannot think a good thought), proceed not mechanically and upon conditions and capitulations with him, but cast themselves totally, and even, as it were blindfold, and bound hand and foot, into the arms of his protection and good pleasure. For you have seen how it stood with me."