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On tire bien des espines poignantes
Rose tresbonne & pleine de beauté.
Des reprouvez & leurs oeuvres meschantes
Dieu tire aussi du bien par sa bonté,
Faisant servir leur fausse volonté
A sa grand’ gloire & salut des esleuz,
Et par justice, ainsi qu’a decreté,
Dieu fait tout bien: que nul n’en doute plus.

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EX MALO BONUM

Good out of evil

A woman stands bunching up her dress at the front with one hand and picking a rose with the other.
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lxvi.

Spina rosam educit placido durissima vere,
Cùm trahit incurvo taurus aratra jugo:
Quod peccant homines, justisque piisque saluti,
Nomen & est semper auctius inde Dei.

In truth, the harshest thorn draws out a rose gently, as the bull drags the plough from the crooked yoke; because men sin, God's name is always growing greater for the salvation of the just and the pious.

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