Note 85 — Chapter IV · PROBATION, AS IMPLYING TRIAL, DIFFICULTIES, AND DANGER.[84]
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[The evils of life, are not to be regarded as entering, necessarily, into God’s plan of probation; and they are not here so presented. The Scriptures show that all suffering is either punitive, or castigatory. Man at first was to be tried by temptations, not by sufferings.]