John Winthrop’s “dangerous hot malignant fever” in such a way that Winthrop “never had more sweet communion with him than in that affliction” (McGee, 1976, pp. 15–16). For the Puritans, anything in life might become a channel of God’s grace. The young Robert Blair looked out of the window one day to see “the sun brightly shining, and a cow with a full udder”; he remembered that the sun was made to give light and the cow to give milk, which made him realize how little he understood the purpose of