say, even in the most afflictive circumstances, “Though he slay me, yet will I trust in himn.”] 3. How should we acknowledge God even in the most trivial occurrences! [There is no occurrence really trivial, or unimportant: for there is such a concatenation of causes and effects fixed in the Divine purpose, that the most important events depend on circumstances, which seem to us altogether trifling and contingento. Let the life of Joseph be surveyed, and we shall find that a thousand different