Hale opted to finish his most ambitious work with a brief summary of implications: ‘a collection of certain evident and profitable consequences from this consideration, that the first individuals of human nature had their original from a great, powerful, wise, intelligent being’. He had shown, at least by consequence, that Man ‘is not himself his own, he owes his being to God, and therefore without the help of divine indulgence his acquests are like the acquests of a servant, acquirit domino’. Creation out of nothing gave the Creator ‘absolute dominion’ over the world that he had freely made:

‘Here therefore’, he assured his readers, ‘we have that great question among some of the ancients satisfactorily answered, What is the root of all obligation in mankind, what is it that binds men to keep their faith, their promises?’