Excerpt from Comfort for the Afflicted: Under Every Distress; With Suitable Devotions Though from this view of human nature, the ancients rationally inferred the exd'cence Of a future fiatez yet from the light of the Gofpel only can we fatisfaetorally refolve thefe riddles, and explain thefe otherwife inextrif cable difficulties. Lookat man in' himielf, and without an eye to a future world; and he is a perfeet myfiery; Look at him, as a can didato for an eternal, an unehangeable inherit; ance; as a probationer in a world of trial, as a' pafiing pilgrim thro' the defert of life to the manfions of uninterrupted repofe -and the myfiery at once is cleared up. All is confident, great and good. Trials and afiiietions, feen in this view no longer amaze or perplex us we fee, in them, the hand of a wife con duetor, and are able to difcern, that they alfo Work for the good Of Man. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.