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Lamentations ✅

“Not in every case of calamity is sin directly the cause. Yet always searching of soul and confession of sin must provide its healing balm. They must affirm that God in the wisdom of justice and his grace has ordered it. They must triumphantly affirm by their faith that they hope nonetheless. In this way of godly weeping, they will learn that godly sorrow works salvation.”

Ecclesiastes ✅

So far the best of the sections in this book.

“When [Ecclesiastes] speaks repeatedly of enjoying God’s blessings of food and drink, of work and wife, he refers to no mundane matters. He echoes the enjoyment of the blessings of paradise. He takes his readers back to humanity’s original condition at creation and to the creational ordinances of labor and marriage.”

Job ✅

“Affliction… is not a token of God‘s displeasure, but one of the measures of his grace. Is not sent in wrath, but with a kind of merciful design. It is one of the ways in which God speaks to men to draw them away from sin and to promote their highest welfare”