A Body of Practical Divinity

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. Psal. 33.18, 19. The eye of the Lord is over them that fear him; to preserve them from death, and to keep them alive in famine. God by his Providential Care shields off Dangers from his People, he sets a Life-guard of Angels about them, Psal. 19.11. God's Providence keeps the very Bones of the Saints, Psal. 34.10. It bottles their Tears, Psal. 56.8. It strengthens the Saints in their Weaknesses, Heb. 11.34. It supplies all their Wants out of its Alms-basket, Psal. 23.5. Thus Providence doth wonderfully supply the Wants of the Elect. When the Protestants in Rochelle were besieged by the French King, God by his Providence sent in a great number of small Fishes that fed them, such as were never seen before in that Haven. So the Raven, that unnatural Creature, (that will hardly feed its own Young, yet) providentially brought Sustenance to the Prophet Elijah,