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5 IV How this view of Providence applies to the actual state of things -

1. We find Him preserving - 2. Directing and shaping Events - Hebrew Nation - 3. Permitting - Fire - famine - pestilence

 Bad men - bad governments -
 Dark ages -

= Moral ends in each - 4. His permission may take on the nature of retribution. Destruction of Jewish nation over Civil war - 5. We find Him afflicting may be retributive -