God moves in a mysterious way
His wonders to perform;
He plants his footsteps in the sea,
And rides upon the storm.
(William Cowper)
The longer I live, the more faith I have in providence, and the less faith in my interpretation of providence. (Jeremiah Day)
God’s providences often seem to contradict his purposes, even when they are serving them. (Matthew Henry)
Everything that happens to me can help me along in my Christian life. (E.…
There are three things in providence: God’s foreknowing, Gods determining, and God’s directing all things to their periods and events. (Thomas Watson)
Providence is the perpetuity and continuance of creation. (Richard Sibbes)
…Tell me, if God had never a creature to look to in all the world but thee, wouldst thou believe that He would regard thy heart. and words, and ways, or not? If He would, why not now as well as then!
Thomas Watson (roughly 1620-1686) was ‘one of the most concise, racy, illustrative, and suggestive of those eminent divines who made the Puritan age the Augustan period of evangelical literature. There is a happy union of sound doctrine, heart-searching experience and practical wisdom throught all his works’ (Spurgeon).
The following is abstracted from Watson’s A Body of Divinity.…
I often find that Donald McLeod illuminates a tricky theological question with uncommon clarity and insight.
Here’s what the Professor has to say about what we call ‘chance’ or ‘accident’ in the light of God’s fore-ordination:-
…God’s fore-ordination does not eliminate contingency. It does not rule out what we call chance or accident. Very often we hear good and pious people saying there is no such thing as chance or accident. Our Confessions do not agree with that.