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Psalm 127:1,2
Except the LORD build the house, they labor in vain that build it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman wakes but in vain.
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Proverbs 21:31
The horse is prepared against the day of battle: but safety is of the LORD.
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The Sorrowful Man's Question
... You know how Paul answers the man who calls in question the dealings of God either
in providence or in grace: "Nay but, O man, who art thou that ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 46 1900/the sorrowful mans question.htm

The Gospel of the Kingdom.
... And the result was, that by the Providence of God He was not stoned to death, as
was His first martyr Stephen, on ... Verily God's ways are not as man's ways. ...
/.../burbidge/the kingdom of heaven what is it/chapter ii the gospel of.htm

Submit Yourselves Therefore to God. James 4:7.
... feeling that, so far as his providence is concerned ... is inconsistent with it, and
no man ever embraced ... submission is acquiescing in the whole government of God. ...
/.../finney/lectures to professing christians/submit yourselves therefore to god.htm

The Sufferings of Christ Reconciled with the Goodness of God.
... here, it is exhibited everywhere in the providence of God ... appear inconsistent with
the justice of God, by means ... at the idea of a virtuous man's being sentenced ...
/.../a theodicy or vindication of the divine glory/chapter iii the sufferings of.htm

The Misery of Man Without God
... Hence savages care nothing for Providence. 99. ... Diversion."If man were happy, he would
be the more so, the less he was diverted, like the Saints and God. ...
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Surely Goodness and Mercy Shall Follow Me all the Days of My Life ...
... "Providence," says St. ... "For God will not except any man's person, neither will He
stand in awe of any man's greatness; for He made the little and the great ...
/.../callan/the shepherd of my soul/xi surely goodness and mercy.htm

Faith and Unbelief.
... faith in truth perceived is the unalterable condition of a man's being at ... and appear
in the life, as circumstances in the providence of God shall develop ...
/.../finney/systematic theology/lecture xxxv faith and unbelief.htm

When a Revival is to be Expected.
... The indications of God's providence are sometimes so plain as to amount ... in the manner
pointed out in the word of God. I believe a man may enter on the work of ...
/.../finney/lectures on revivals of religion/lecture ii when a revival.htm

Importance of the Time of Youth; Difficulties and Dangers that ...
... woman from the circle to which Providence would have ... earnestly should you seek in
God and yourself ... is something so extremely perilous to man's eternal welfare ...
/.../sainte-foi/serious hours of a young lady/chapter i importance of the.htm

The Credibility of Scripture Sufficiently Proved in So Far as ...
... other"an agreement which a Divine Providence alone could ... infidels that the Scripture
is the Word of God. ... does Augustine remind us, that every man who would ...
/.../the institutes of the christian religion/chapter 8 the credibility of.htm

Subtopics

Providence

The Providence of God is all Pervading

The Providence of God is Ever Watchful

The Providence of God is Exercised in Bringing his Words to Pass

The Providence of God is Exercised in Defeating Wicked Designs

The Providence of God is Exercised in Delivering Saints

The Providence of God is Exercised in Determining the Period of Human Life

The Providence of God is Exercised in Directing all Events

The Providence of God is Exercised in Leading Saints

The Providence of God is Exercised in Ordaining the Conditions and Circumstances of Men

The Providence of God is Exercised in Ordering the Minutest Matters