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Alamities then are good in their Original; they are so also in their End, because they are alwayes directed to our good. You will say which way? Is not mischief and ruine the manifest end of Warr and Slaughter? It is I confess if you look at Men, but not if you look upon God. That you may the more clearly apprehend this, It will be requisite thus to distinguish of divine punishments; some are simple and others are mixt: Those Rh