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78
A Diſcourſe
Book I.

Chap. XIV.

Nothing done here below but by the Providence of God. Calamities upon People and Cities from thence. It is not therefore piously done to complain of, or lament them. An Exhortation to obey God, with whom it is vanity and rashness to contend.

Which if you have throughly imbib'd, if you do in good earnest and from your heart believe that this Governing Power doth thus insert and insinuate it self, and (to speak with the Poet)

———Doth when it please
Pass through all Lands and Seas:

I do not see what further place there can be for your Grief or complaint. For that very provident Being

which