“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.”

—  Thomas Watson

"Christ The Redeemer" in A Body of Divinity http://www.fivesolas.com/watson/redeemer.htm (1692).

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