What theological argument does John Hale use to explain the causes of the events in Salem?

After Hale and the Proctors learn that Rebecca Nurse, a woman with a faultless reputation who seems in all ways to be the picture of goodness and charity, has been arrested for witchcraft, Hale says,

Man, remember, until an hour before the Devil fell, God thought him beautiful in Heaven.

According to this argument, God did not see the fall of the angel Lucifer coming, and God thought well of him, thought him beautiful, until moments before he rebelled and fell from God's grace. Therefore, for Hale, it does not strain credulity too much to think that a mere human woman could fall as well and that we might have no knowledge of it until someone brings proof forward.
Then, following the news of Martha Corey's arrest, Elizabeth Proctor is arrested as well. To this, Hale tells their husbands,

Let you counsel among yourselves; think on your village and what may have drawn from heaven such thundering wrath upon you all. I shall pray God open up our eyes.

Here, he argues that the residents of Salem must have done something to deserve God's wrath in the form of this scourge. God would not punish them for nothing, he says, and so they must think about how they have conducted themselves to try to figure out what sins they might have committed to deserve what is happening to them. He lays the cause at God's feet rather than blaming corrupt human beings who are seeking revenge or gratifying their desire for more land, and so forth.