Yea, would that what we hope for might be, according to the great kindness of our bountiful God... bearing all things, enduring all things for their love and hope of Him, giving thanks for all things favourable and unfavourable alike: I mean pleasant and painful, for reason knows that even these are often instruments of salvation...
(Oration 7:24)
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