Several discourses concerning the actual Providence of God. Divided into three parts. The first, treating concerning the notion of it, establshing the doctrine of it, opening the principal acts of it, preservation and government of created beings. With the particular acts, by which it so preserveth and governeth them. The second, concerning the specialities of it, the unseachable things of it, and several observable things in its motions. The third, concerning the dysnoēta, or hard chapters of it, in which an attempt is made to solve several appearances of difficulty in the motions of Providence, and to vindicate the justice, wisdom, and holiness of God, with the reasonableness of his dealing in such motions. / By John Collinges ...

Collinges, John, 1623-1690
Publisher: Printed for Tho Parkhurst and are to be sold by Edward Giles
Place of Publication: London
Publication Year: 1678
Approximate Era: CharlesII
TCP ID: B08803 ESTC ID: R233164 STC ID: C5335
Subject Headings: Providence and government of God; Sermons, English -- 17th century; Theology, Doctrinal;
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