Sovereign Efficacy of Divine Providence

Sovereign Efficacy of Divine Providence: Cover

Softcover. Fine. Text is clean & tight & unmarked. Slight shelf wear with very slight bumping to top corner of book.

The design of this work is to vindicate the glory of the blessed God in his all-ruling, wonder-working providence as sovereignly disposing the issues and events of all human counsels, and affairs. Christ, who is the Highest King and Lord of all, rules and reigns in his declarative glory “all things.” Nothing is left to itself, but God has a purpose in it. While we are too intent in gazing on the living creatures, and the dreadful wheels of Ezekiel, we soon lose the sight of him who sits above on the throne, overruling, and working all things according to the counsel of his own will. Oakes will point out this Sovereign in all his amiable glory.

Beginning with a careful consideration of Ecclesiastes 9:11, Oakes explains how the successes and events of undertakings and affairs are not determined infallibly by the greatest sufficiency in men, or even in second causes; but by the counsel and providence of God ordering and governing time and chance according to his own good pleasure. God’s counsel and sovereign will appoint what they shall be, and his providence (which is not determined by any second cause, but is the determiner of them all) executes all things accordingly. And it must necessarily be so if you consider that God is the absolute first cause, and supreme Lord of all.

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Author(s): 
Oakes, Urian
Publisher: 
Puritan Publications
ISBN 10: 
1626633592
ISBN 13: 
9781626633599
SKU: PJ0004632
Publication Date: 
2020