John Trapp on Romans 8:28

Verſe 28. All things work together] Not affliction only (as ſome would here reſtrain it) but ſin,De benef. lib. 2. c. 18. Satan, all. Venenum aliquando pro remedio ſuit, ſaith Seneca. Medici pedes & alas Cantharidis, cum ſit ipſa mortifera, prodeſſe dicunt. Plut. The drinking of that wine wherein a viper hath been drowned, cureth the leproſie. The Scorpion healeth his own wounds: and the viper (the head and tail being cut off) beaten and applied, cureth her own biting. God changeth our griſly wounds into ſpangles of beauty: and maketh the horrible ſting of Satan to be like a pearl-pin, to pin upon us the long white robe of Chriſt, and to dreſſe us with the garment of gladnes.