A treatise of divine providence I. In general, II. In particular, as relating to…

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3. Nothing doth subsist without Gods care and power. His eyes running to and fro implies not only knowledge, but care. He doth not carelessly behold what is done in the World, but like a skilful Pilot, he sits at the helm and steers the World in what course it should Sail. Our being we owe to his power, our well-being to his care, our motion and exerting of every faculty, to his merciful providence and concurrence, in him we live and move and have our being. ^*He frames our being, preserves our life, concurs with our motion. This is an Idea that bears date in the minds of men, with the very notion of a God. Why else did the Heathen in all their straits fly to their Altars, and fill their Temples with cries and sacrifices? To what purpose was this, if they had not acknowledged Gods superintendency, his taking notice of their cause, hearing their prayers, ⟨p. 23⟩considering their cries? Why should they do this, if they thought that God did not regard humane affairs, but stood untouched with a sense of their miseries?

3. Nothing doth subsist without Gods care and power. His eyes running to and fro implies not only knowledge, but care. He doth not carelesly behold what is done in the World, but like a skilful Pilot, he sits at the helm and steers the World in what course it should Sail. Our being we owe to his power, our well-being to his care, our motion and exerting of every faculty, to his merciful providence and concurrence, in him we live and move and have our being. ^*He frames our being, preserves our life, concurs with our motion. This is an Idea that bears date in the minds of men, with the very notion of a God. Why else did the Heathen in all their streights fly to their Altars, and fill their Temples with cries and sacrifices? To what purpose was this, if they had not acknowledged Gods superintendency, his taking notice of their cause, hearing their prayers,