 | Enoch Pond - Theology, Doctrinal - 1867 - 784 pages
...works of providence," to borrow the language of the Westminster divines, " are his most holy, wise, and powerful preserving and governing all his creatures, and all their actions." According to this definition, the first work of providence is the upholding or preserving of created... | |
 | William Garden Blaikie - 1868 - 378 pages
...pleasant shadow awhile. ' God's works of providence,' says the Catechism, ' are His most holy, wise, and powerful preserving and governing all his creatures and all their actions.' I thank the catechism for that very sweeping statement : the more sweeping it can be made it will be... | |
 | Andrew CRICHTON (Free Church Minister, of Dundee.) - Clergy - 1868 - 378 pages
...pleasant shadow awhile. ' God's works of providence,' says the Catechism, ' are His most holy, wise, and powerful preserving and governing all his creatures and all their actions.' I thank the catechism for that very sweeping statement : the more sweeping it can be made it will be... | |
 | John Murray - British Americans - 1869 - 430 pages
...by the compilers of the shorter catechism, that God's works of providence are his most holy, wise, and powerful, preserving and governing all his creatures, and all their actions ; and having a full conviction that the affairs of the church are, in an especial manner, under his... | |
 | John Murray - British Americans - 1870 - 434 pages
...remembering that God's works of providence are Itis most holy, wise, and powerful ; preserving and governinfj all his creatures, and all their actions. Do not,...upon yourself. I confess I was wrong in censuring }'ou. God's way is in the great deep. We ought to acquiesce in all the dispensations of our Creator.... | |
 | Janet Hamilton - 1870 - 456 pages
...filial reliance on the providence of God, defined in our Church catechism as "His most holy, wise, and powerful preserving, and governing all his creatures and all their actions," and he used to relate an incident in the life of one of his ancestors, who was a trooper under Oliver... | |
 | Charles Hodge - Presbyterian Church - 1873 - 672 pages
...incomprehensible." CHAPTER XL PKOVIDENCE. ยง 1. Preservation. GOD'S works of providence are his most holy, wise, and powerful preserving and governing all his creatures and all their actions. Providence, therefore, includes preservation and government. By preservation is meant that all things... | |
 | 1874 - 736 pages
...holiness, with dominion over his creatures. 11. God's works of providence are, hia most holy, wise, and powerful preserving and governing all his creatures, and all their actions. 12. When God had created man, he entered into a covenant of life with him, upon condition of perfect... | |
 | Charles Haddon Spurgeon - 1874 - 676 pages
...rejoice." The providence of God is well described in our shorter catechism, " It is his most holy, wise, and powerful preserving and governing all his creatures and all their actions." " The Lord reigneth '' over the kingdoms of the earth, and manages all their affairs according to his... | |
 | 1875 - 797 pages
...holiness, with dominion over his creatures. 11. God's works of providence are, his most holy, wise, and powerful preserving and governing all his creatures, and all their actions. 12. When God had created man, he entered into a covenant of life with him, upon condition of perfect... | |
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God's works of providence are, his most holy, wise, and powerful preserving and governing all his creatures, and all their actions. 
