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Reading this with the bois

“Thus, for the good and safety of His people, He overrules all the creatures, even the devil himself, who, we see, dared not attempt anything against Job without His permission and command. This knowledge is necessarily followed by gratitude in prosperity, patience in adversity, and incredible security for the time to come.”
Of course the sections on God’s sovereignty is impacting my Presbyterian heart the most

For as soon as we have conceived some little taste of divinity by contemplation of the world, we abandon the true God and set up dreams and imaginary things from our own brains in place of Him, and transfer to them Gods righteousness, wisdom, goodness, and power. Moreover we so obscure His daily works, or we overturn them by misjudging them, that the praise and grace which is owed to Him.