OF THE GOODNESS AND MALICE OF SORROW OR PAIN
(In Four Articles)
We must now consider the goodness and malice of pain or sorrow:
under which head there are four points of inquiry:
(1) Whether all sorrow is evil?
(2) Whether sorrow can be a virtuous good?
(3) Whether it can be a useful good?
(4) Whether bodily pain is the greatest evil?
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