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There is nothing that can hurt the soul but sin; it is not affliction that hurts it, it often makes it better, as the furnace makes gold the purer; but it is sin that damnifies.
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"Christ The Redeemer" in A Body of Divinity (1692)

 

Thomas Watson

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