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A discourse of divine providence I. In general
A discourse of divine providence I. In general: that there is a providence exercised by God in the world. II. In particular: how all Gods providences in the world, are in order to the good of his people. By the late learned divine Stephen Charnock, B.D. sometime fellow of New-College in Oxon.A discourse of divine providence I. In general: that there is a providence exercised by God in the world. II. In particular: how all Gods providences in the world, are in order to the good of his people. By the late learned divine Stephen Charnock, B.D. sometime fellow of New-Colledg in Oxon.
London: printed by R. Roberts for Thomas Cockerill, 1684
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.
But this mysteriousness and darkness of Providence adds a lustre to it. As stones set in Ebony, though the grounds ⟨p. 42⟩be dark, make the beauty and sparkling the clearer.
1. His ways are above human methods. Dark Providences are often the groundwork of some excellent piece he is about to discover to the world. His methods are like a plaited Picture, which on the one side represents a Negro, on the other a Beauty. He lets Sarahs womb be dead, and then brings out the root of a numerous Progeny. He makes Jacob a Cripple, and then a Prince to prevail with God; He gives him a wound, and then a Blessing. He sends not the Gospel till reason was nonplussed, and that the world in that highest wisdom it had at that time attained unto, was not able to arrive to the knowledge of God. 1 Cor. 1.21. After that the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.
1. His wayes are above human methods. Dark Providences are often the groundwork of some excellent piece he is about to discover to the world. His methods are like a plaited Picture, which on the one side represents a Negro, on the other a Beauty. He lets Sarahs womb be dead, and then brings out the root of a numerous Progeny. He makes Jacob a Cripple, and then a Prince to prevail with God; He gives him a wound, and then a Blessing. He sends not the Gospel till reason was nonplust, and that the world in that highest wisdom it had at that time attained unto, was not able to arrive to the knowledge of God. 1 Cor. 1.21. After that the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.