Suffering and Sovereignty: John Flavel and the Puritans on Afflictive Providence Music Written and designed for the

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author Mark Nickens outlines the historical context of important developments in doctrine and practice

but he brings counsel on how to learn a better way and who to look to for it: Jesus

invented modern spycraft

but it also shows the current and coming racial and national diversity of Presbyterianism

Suffering and Sovereignty: John Flavel and the Puritans on Afflictive Providence Music Written and designed for theJohn Flavel wrote extensively on the subject of human suffering and how it relates to divine sovereignty. He himself experienced great suffering through the deaths of three wives and a son and continual persecution from state officials. Because many of his writings deal directly with the theme of suffering and because of his own experience with it, Flavel is a significant resource for understanding a Puritan theology of human suffering and divine