He knew that the laws of nature, through which God preserves all His works in the order and situation in which they subsist, are the same laws as those through which He was able to form and arrange them; for it is obvious to all those who consider things with care that if God had not arranged His work all at once in the manner in which they would be arranged through time, the entire order of nature would be upset, since the laws of conservation would be contrary to the order of the first creation.