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Some select cases resolved. Specially, tending to the right ordering of the heart, that…
Some select cases resolved. Specially, tending to the right ordering of the heart, that we may comfortably walk with God in our general and particular callings: &c. In a letter to a pious friend in England. / By Thomas Shepard, M.A. Formerly of Emmanuel-College in Cambridge in England: afterward Minister of Cambridge in New-England. ; Corrected by four several editions.
Boston: printed by Rogers and Fowle, 1747
THE Sum of Christian Religion: In Way of Question and Answer.
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Secondly, In Gubernation, whereby he guides, directs, and brings all creatures to their ends, Psal. 29.10. Psal. 33.11.
Q. Doth GOD govern all creatures alike?
A. No, But some he governs by a common providence, and others by a special providence, to wit, Angels and Men, to an eternal state of happiness in pleasing him, or of misery in displeasing him. Deut. 30.15, 16.
Q. What of GOD's Providence appears in his special government of man?