Puritan · 1663

All Things for Good

Thomas Watson (c. 1620-1686)

Written in 1663, the year after Watson and two thousand other Puritan ministers were ejected from their pulpits by the Act of Uniformity, this treatise on Romans 8:28 is the theology of a man who had just lost everything and still believed God works all things for good. Watson moves through eight tightly argued chapters, from the certainty of the privilege to the doctrine of election, showing why both the best and the worst things in a believer's life serve their eternal good. It remains one of the clearest and most pastoral expositions of divine providence in the English tradition.