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Whom God approves and loves, he exercises, and tries them again and again, and thus inures them to hardship; but those whom he designs to enervate, he spares and indulges and saves them from impending ills....
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Mann reflects on the idea that God tests those He loves, using hardship as a means of preparation.
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