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To
the Chriffian
Reader.
foule
from
going into the
pit,
and
his life (hall
fee
the light.
Lo,
all
thefe things
worketh God
oftentimes with man
to bring
back
his
foule
from
the
pit,
to be enlightned with the
light
of
the living.
From
thefe premi
fes
we may
colles
both
what
is
proper
to
the
righteous
;
and that,
in
what
foever
is
common
to
them
with
the
wicked,
there
is
neither
diforder
nor
confu
f
on.
For
though the
belt
of
the
righteous
are
lyable
to
the
fame outward
evils
which
the worft
of
the
wicked are,yet their
condi-
tion
is
not
the
fame;
feeing
to
the
wicked
thofe
e-
vils
are
purely
punifhments,
,,
but
the
beginning
of
thofe
furrows
which
!hall
never
end;whereas
to
the
righteou
they
are
either but chaftifements
for
fomefin
already
committed,
or
medicaments
to
pre-
vent
the committing
either
of
the
fame,
or
of
fore
other
fin. And
as
for
thofe who
by
fuch
chaftningr
are brought
to
a
fight
of
their fins and
forfake
them,
their
foules are
(by
this
meaner
v.
3o.)
brought
back
from the
pit
to
be
enlightned
with
the
light
of
the living.
This
poynt
is
yet
more
fully
and
plainly
profecu..
tecl by
Elihu in
the
366
chapter
;
where he
inform.
eth
us,
how
fufferings
are
differently
to
be
concei-
ved
of
according
to
a threefold
difference
e
of
the
per_
fans,
fuffi
ring.The
firft,and
chiefe,is
of
thofe,who
are_