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A Body of Practical Divinity
A body of practical divinity consisting of above one hundred seventy six sermons on the lesser catechism composed by the reverend assembly of divines at Westminster : with a supplement of some sermons on several texts of Scripture / by Thomas Watson ...
London: printed for Thomas Parkurst, 1692
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3. God orders all Events of things after the Council of his Will to his own Glory, the Glory of God being the Ultimate End of all God's Actings, and the Centre where all the Lines of Providence do meet. The Providence of God is Regina Mundi, the Queen and Governess of the World; it is the Eye that sees, and the Hand that turns all the Wheels in the Universe. God is not like an Artificer that builds a House and then leaves it and is gone, but like a Pilot that does with a great deal of Care steer on the Ship of the whole Creation.
3. I shall lay down some Positions about the Providence of God.
1. God's Providence reaches to all Places, Persons and Occurrences, 1. To all Places, Jer. 23. Am I a God at hand, and not a God afar off? The Diocese where Providence visits is very large, it reaches to Heaven, to Earth and Sea, Ps. 107.23, 24. They that go down to sea see the wonders of God in the deep. Now that the Sea which is higher then the Earth, should not drown the Earth, is a Wonder of Providence: and the Prophet Jonah he saw the Wonders of God in the Deep, when the very Fish which did devour him and swallow him, did bring him safe to Shore. 2. God's Providence reaches to all Persons, especially the Persons of the Godly, they are in a special manner taken notice of; God takes care of every Saint in particular, as if he had none else to take care for, 1 Pet. 5.7. He careth for you, (i. e.) Elect in a special manner.