Divine Cordial (All Things for Good)

In 1663, Thomas Watson had just been violently torn from his pulpit, stripped of his vocation, and cast into uncertainty alongside hundreds of other Puritan ministers. From the ashes of that loss came this slender, ferocious work of comfort. Watson takes the most staggering promise in Scripture, Romans 8:28, and does not soften it. He asks the hard questions: What good could possibly come from affliction? How does a loving God orchestrate suffering into salvation? The result is not abstract theology but bedside medicine for the wounded soul. Watson writes with the authority of a man who has stared into despair and found grace waiting on the other side. For three and a half centuries, this book has traveled into prisons, hospitals, and grieving homes. It is for anyone who has ever whispered, 'How can anything good come from this?'