'God therefore is a law both to Himself, and to all other things besides. To Himself He is a law in all those things, where of our Saviour speaketh, saying "My Father worketh as yet so I." God worketh nothing without cause. All those things which are done by Him have some end for which they are done; and the end for which they are done is a reason of His will to do them. His will had not inclined to create woman, but that He saw it could not be well if she were not created. Non est bonum, "It is not good man should be alone; therefore let Us make a helper for him." That and nothing else is done by God, which to leave undone were not so good.'
--- Richard Hooker ; Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity (Book I)
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