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To the Chriflian Reader.
The fcope
of Elihu in
that
long
and
learned
Phi_
lot
rphicall
LeUure
was
to
teach
and
a_
fore
job,
that,
God
who
caufeth
and
di
fpof
th
thofe
vari-
ous
alterations and
terrible
impreffions
in
the
ayre,
both for the
humbling
and
benefiting
of
man,
doth
much
more
both
fend
and over
-rule
all
thofe chan-
ges
-
aßliaioni
which befall
the
font
of
men,here
on
caith,to
humble them
do
them
good.And
fur-
ther
to
affure
o
him,
that
if
man
be
not able
to
give
a
fati.rfyi.ng
reafo.n
of
thofe
workes
of
God
in
na-
ture, but
is
often
gravel'd
and
forced
to
fi
t downe
in
a
f
lent
admiration
;
then
furely
man
is
much
le
fe
able
to
fathome
the depth
of
Gods
purpofes
in
all
the
workes
of
his
providence,but
mutt
in
many
of
them
only
fit
downe
quietly
and
fubmit;For
(as
Elihu
concluded)
fromthef
e
premifes
(
Chap:
37.
2
,3)24.
)Touching
the
Almighty
we
cannot
find
him
out,
he
is
Excellent
in
power
and
in
judge-
ment,
and in
plenty
of
Juflice
he will
not
af-
fl;er,
(either
caufelefly
or
more
then needs,
though
we feldome
fee
the
caufes
or
acknowledge the
need
of
his
a
li5iions)
men doe
(that
is,
they
ought
therefore
feare
him
;
and
if
any are
fo
proud and
high
in their
owne
thoughts
that
they
doe
not,
at
their
perill
be
it
,
for
he
refpeaeth
not
any
that
are wife
in heart
;
that is
,
as
the
carnal
wifdome
of
worldly
men
cannot
be
a
barre,
fo