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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.
As God made all things for himself, so he orders the ends of all things made by him, for his own glory. For being the most excellent and intelligent agent, he doth reduce all the motions of his Creatures to that end for which he made them.
This actual government of the World by God, brancheth it self out in three things.
The eye of God is upon the whole circle of the creatures motion. In all the revolutions in the world, there is the Eye of Gods Omniscience to see them, and the arm of his Omnipotence to guide them: Not the most retired corner, or the darkest cell, not the deepest cavern, or most inward project, nor the most secret wickedness, not the closest goodness, but the eye of the Lord beholds it,