Verse 1
So a superior order wills
Which Festus cannot see,
While ignorantly he fulfils
Th’ omnipotent decree:
The secret springs of Providence
Which rule our actions here
Are unperceiv’d by grosser sense,
And but to faith appear.
Verse 2
Beneath the purposes of man
Our God his own conceals,
Conducts the deep mysterious plan,
And governs all the wheels:
The thing his agents least intend,
To do his will they come,
And Jews combin’d with Gentiles send
His messenger to Rome.