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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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If God will give his People a Kingdom when they dye, he will not deny them daily Bread while they live. 3. God's Providence reaches to all Affairs and Occurrences in the World, there is nothing that stirs in the World but God hath by his Providence the over-ruling of it. The raising of a Man to Honour, whence is this? but through Divine Providence: Psal. 75.7. He puts down one, and sets up another. Success and Victory in Battle is the result of Providence; Saul had the Victory, but God wrought the Salvation, 1 Sam. 11.13. That among all Virgins that were brought before the King, that Esther should find Favour in the Eyes of the King, was not without God's special Providence; for by this means the Lord saved the Jews alive that were destined to Destruction. Providence reaches to the least of things, to the Birds and Pismire; Providence feeds the young Raven when the Dam forsakes it, and will give it no Food, Psal. 147.9. Providence reaches to the very Hairs of our Head, Matth. 10.30. The hairs of your head are numbered; and surely if Providence reaches to our Hairs, then much more to our Souls. And thus you have seen that the Providence of God reaches to all Places, to all Persons, to all Occurrences and Affairs. Now there are two Objections against this Doctrine,
If God will give his People a Kingdom when they dye, he will not deny them daily Bread while they live. 3. God's Providence reaches to all Affairs and Occurrences in the World, there is nothing that stirs in the World but God hath by his Providence the over-ruling of it. The raising of a Man to Honour, whence is this? but through Divine Providence: Psal. 75.7. He puts down one, and sets up another. Success and Victory in Battel is the result of Providence; Saul had the Victory, but God wrought the Salvation, 1 Sam. 11.13. That among all Virgins that were brought before the King, that Esther should find Favour in the Eyes of the King, was not without God's special Providence; for by this means the Lord saved the Iews alive that were destinat'd to Destrustion. Providence reaches to the least of things, to the Birds and Pismire; Providence feeds the young Raven when the Dam forsakes it, and will give it no Food,