lot and hardship of the pious, living in this world under the cross and its afflictions. Likewise, the justice of God, who guards the pious but condemns and destroys the impious. In short, manifested here is that providence of God that first of all guards everything he created, then especially those whom he has loved as a special possession and a people for his own, never leaving them unguarded in time of need and encircling his own with love. So it is not without reason that you could call this