How might a Christian be comforted by God's providence? "His solace, I say, is to know that his Heavenly Father so holds all things in his power, so rules by his authority and will, so governs by his wisdom, that nothing can befall except [God] determines it. Moreover, it comforts him to know that he has been received into God's safekeeping and entrusted to the care of his angels, and that neither water, nor fire, nor iron can harm him, except insofar as it please God as governor to give them occasion. Thus indeed the psalm sings: 'For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler and from the deadly pestilence. Under his wings will he protect you, and in his pinions you will have assurance; his truth will be your shield. You will not fear the terror of night, nor the flying arrow by day, not the pestilence that stalks in darkness, nor the destruction that wasters at midday' (Ps. 91:3-6)." -John Calvin

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