If riches will thus do them good, all things shall concur to make them rich:if poverty, all things shall concur to keep them poor:if it be good for them to be healthful and strong, all things shall concur to prevent sickness:if it is better to be sick or weak, all things shall concur to impair their health:and so in every thing else that can be named. So that every thing that happens well for them-the best that can be, in that it helps to the subduing of some vice in them, or to the regulating of some passion, or to the breaking of an ill custom, or to the preventing some occasion of falling into sin or mischief, or to the diverting some temptation, or to the arming them against it, or to the making them more watchful over themselves, or to the exercising some virtue in them, or to the putting them in mind of their duty or to the keeping them close to it, or to the giving them an opportunity of doing some good which otherwise they could not do, or else to their growing in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, and so to the fitting them better to serve God here and to live with Him hereafter. Whatever conduceth to these and such like ends is truly good for them, and therefore all things concur to effect it. They may be sure of it, for they have the word of God Himself for it, assuring them here, by His apostle, that " all things work together for good."

Beveridge