Theater of Machines, Part 3

Intrant in Thalamos publica damna tuos.
original Latin: "Intrant in Thalamos publica damna tuos." (Public disasters enter into your chambers.)

So it is indeed the best and nearest way that one falls together and in common into the rod of His divine omnipotence and prays diligently for the averting of such punishments.

Since, however, He has promised in His Word to provide maintenance for His own even in evil and expensive times, He has not only often helped them without means, as the Scripture testifies, but to that end, He has undoubtedly endowed humans also with understanding and special wisdom, so that they could themselves think of means how they might save themselves from such evil, and work at all kinds of works and artificial tasks. Hence, such wise artists are mentioned in the people of God in the second book of Moses, chapters 28, 35, 36, and 38...