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A Divine Cordial offers loving testimony to God’s faithfulness based on Romans. Watson calls his first premise “a glorious privilege”—that all things work together for good. His second is that those who understand this privilege are called. Third, Watson emphasizes the Romans text that they are called, “according to his purpose.” Watson exhorts readers to the certainty of their privilege and...

Another heart-quieting consideration, is, that afflictions work for good. “Like these good figs, so will I acknowledge them that are carried away captive of Judah, whom I have sent out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans, for their good,” Jer. 24:5. Judah’s captivity in Babylon was for their good. “It is good for me that I have been afflicted.” Psal. 119:71. This text, like Moses’s tree cast into the bitter waters of affliction, may make them sweet and wholesome to drink. Afflictions to
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