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A Divine Cordial
A divine cordial, or, The transcendent privilege of those that love God and are savingly called published by Thomas Watson ...A divine cordial, or, The transcendent priviledge of those that love God and are savingly called published by Thomas Watson ...
London: printed for Tho. Parkhurst, 1663
Chapter 6: The Inferences drawn from the Proposition. A Use of Information.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
1. IF all things work for good, hence learn,1 That there is a Providence: Things do not work of themselves, but God sets them a working for good.2 God is the great Disposer of all events and issues, he sets every thing a working, His Kingdom ruleth over all, Psal. 103.13. It is meant of his providential Kingdom. Things in the world are not governed by second Causes, by the counsels of men, by the Stars and Planets, but by divine Providence. Providence is Regina mundi, the Queen and Governess of the world. There are three things in Providence. 1. [Greek or Hebrew], Gods foreknowing; 2. [Greek or Hebrew], Gods determining; 3. [Greek or Hebrew], Gods directing all things to their periods and events: ⟨p. 70⟩Whatever things do work in the world, G•• sets them a working. We read in the […] Ezekiel of Wheels, and Eyes in the […], and the moving of the Wheels: The […] are the whole Universe, the […] Wheels are Gods Providence, […] of the Wheels is the hand of […] turning all things here belo•• […] is by some called […] else but the result of […]*
1. IF all things work for good, hence learn,1 That there is a Providence: Things do not work of themselves, but God sets them a working for good.2 God is the great Disposer of all events and issues, he sets every thing a working, His Kingdom ruleth over all, Psal. 103.13. It is meant of his providential Kingdom. Things in the world are not governed by second Causes, by the counsels of men, by the Stars and Planets, but by divine Providence. Providence is Regina mundi, the Queen and Governesse of the world. There are three things in Providence. 1. , Gods foreknowing; 2. , Gods determining; 3. , Gods directing all things to their periods and events: