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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.
4. Patience. Infinite patience is requisite to the preservation and government of the World in the circumstances wherein it hath stood ever since the fall: What Angel, though the meekest, or can all the Angels in Heaven be Masters of so much patience as is needful for this work of governing the World, though for the space of one day? Could they bear with all those evils which are committed in the world in the space of 24 hours? Might we not reasonably conceive that they would be so tired with the obliquities, disorders, deformities which they ⟨p. 13⟩would see in the acts of men, (besides all the evil which is in the hearts of men, which lye without the verge of their knowledge) that they would rather call for fire from Heaven to burn the world to Ashes.
4. Patience. Infinite patience is requisite to the preservation and government of the World in the circumstances wherein it hath stood ever since the fall: What Angel, though the meekest, or can all the Angels in Heaven be Masters of so much patience as is needful for this work of governing the World, though for the space of one day? Could they bear with all those evils which are committed in the world in the space of 24 hours? Might we not reasonably conceive that they would be so tired with the obliquities, disorders, deformities which they ⟨p. 13⟩would see in the acts of men, (besides all the evil which is in the hearts of men, which lye without the verge of their knowledg) that they would rather call for fire from Heaven to burn the world to Ashes.
*Averroes thought, that because of Gods slowness to anger, he meddled to with sublunary concerns: This rather fits him for it, because he can bear with the injuries of wicked men, otherwise the world would not continue a moment.
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