Afflictions Made Beneficial

The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.

• Genesis 22:1Torrey In trying our faith and obedience

  And it came to pass after these things, that God did tempt Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham: and he said, Behold, here I am.

• Genesis 22:2Torrey In trying our faith and obedience

  And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.

• Genesis 42:21Torrey Exemplified — Joseph's brethren

  ¶ And they said one to another, We are verily guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear; therefore is this distress come upon us.

• Genesis 45:5Torrey Exemplified — Joseph

  Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither: for God did send me before you to preserve life.

• Genesis 45:7Torrey Exemplified — Joseph

  And God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance.

• Genesis 45:8Torrey Exemplified — Joseph

  So now it was not you that sent me hither, but God: and he hath made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt.

• Exodus 15:23–25Torrey In trying our faith and obedience

  ¶ And when they came to Marah, they could not drink of the waters of Marah, for they were bitter: therefore the name of it was called Marah. And the people murmured against Moses, saying, What shall we drink? And he cried unto the LORD; and the LORD shewed…

• Numbers 21:7Torrey In leading us to confession of sin

  ¶ Therefore the people came to Moses, and said, We have sinned, for we have spoken against the LORD, and against thee; pray unto the LORD, that he take away the serpents from us. And Moses prayed for the people.

• Deuteronomy 4:30Torrey In turning us to God

  When thou art in tribulation, and all these things are come upon thee, even in the latter days, if thou turn to the LORD thy God, and shalt be obedient unto his voice;

• Deuteronomy 4:31Torrey In turning us to God

  (For the LORD thy God is a merciful God;) he will not forsake thee, neither destroy thee, nor forget the covenant of thy fathers which he sware unto them.

• Deuteronomy 8:2Torrey In trying our faith and obedience

  And thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no.

• Deuteronomy 8:3Torrey In humbling us

  And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the…