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Chap. 14. which daily moves and turnes about this Heaven, which leads forth and recalls the Sun; which discloses and shuts up all sorts of fruits: hath brought to the Birth all those changes and vicissitudes which you do either repine, or wonder at. Do you think that only pleasant or profitable things are sent to us from Heaven? Yes, those also that are sad and distasteful are from thence: Nor is there any thing at all in this grand frame of the World, which is transacted, discomposed or confounded (sin only excepted) whose cause and original proceeds not from that first cause: Pindar said well,

There is (as it were) a certain golden Chain let down from above (as Homer gives it us in a Fable) unto which all these inferiour things Rh