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Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding. (Proverbs 23)

Newton on Promises in Affliction

The far greater part of the promises in Scripture are made and suited to a state of affliction; and though we may believe they are true, we cannot so well know their sweetness, unless we ourselves are in a state to which they refer.

John Newton
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