Assertion: affliction | /r/HasProperty | useful
Facets:
value: to god’s people
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
value: in a degree
type: OTHER
value: to keep alive
type: PURPOSE
value: very
type: DEGREE
value: to god's church
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
Source sentences:
text: Affliction is very useful and profitable to the godly—to the elect, to God's church.
text: Afflictions are useful, and in a degree necessary, to keep alive in us—a conviction of the vanity and unsatisfying nature of the present world, and all its enjoyments; to remind us that this world is not our rest, and to call our thoughts upwards, where our true treasure is, and where our heart ought to be.
text: Affliction is also useful to God’s people as an actual producer of good things in them.