So he relates the Converse and Covenant of God with Abraham, Isaac and Israel, as a Narration of former Providences and Experiences, Psal.
The doctrine of specialprovidences is presuming--of the earth, earthy.
Now it is a very commonplace and homely piece of teaching to remind you that time is not wasted in making quite sure of the meaning of providences which seem to declare the will of God, before we begin to act.
These two marvellous providences that did occur to me at Worden, and about the business of William Mader.
Will not a humble posture best become us when we have humbling providences in prospect?
Give me leave to give you a taste of some of those providences that have been effectual, through the management of God, to bring salvation to the souls of his people.
Nor his appearing in his dreadful providencesor judgments.
God blesseth not to every one his providences in this manner.
Note, When providences are black and terrible to God's people, the Lord Jesus shows himself to them in wonderful manner; the which sometimes they can as little bear, as they can the things that were before terrible to them.
And very often to men does this arrangement of the parts repeat itself; and while human friends are anxious and energetic about them, God Himself appears in providences more lionlike than shepherdly.
Joseph is poetically and summarily treated, as a link in the chain of providences which brought about the fulfilment of the Covenant.
It so happened, however, in the providences of God that Hyrum fell a martyr before Joseph; and therefore the man whom the prophet desired to succeed him, as well as himself, were taken from the earth.
To complete this catalogue of special providences we may add that, if Fuller had delayed only a little longer, even Serampore would have been found shut against the missionaries.
There is an ignoble and there is a noble and Christian satisfaction in even the destructive providences of God.
The psalmist knows that destructive providences have their gracious aspect, and that God's true victory over men is not won when opposition is crushed and hearts made to quake, but when recognition of His sway and joy in it swell the heart.
But all peoples have the strength of His arm to be their defender, and the guidance of His hand byprovidences and in other ways unrecognised by them.
And how firmly did these providences weave into one web the sympathies and views of the Jewish people!
These providences were their Sacrament, and their sign that God was with them to protect.
If I could particularly enumerate the remarkable providences which were hereupon given in my favor there would be enough to fill whole volumes.
If I could recount all the providences of God in my favor, it would appear wonderful.
It leaves itself to be conducted by God's providences and creatures.
I omit many things, both of providences of the Lord in my favor, and of rugged paths through which I was obliged to pass.
My soul could not incline itself on one side or the other, since another will had taken the place of its own, but only nourished itself with the daily providences of God.
Trust in the providences of God, commit your way unto him, patiently wait, and he will guide you into the way that is best.
In the providences of God, Kish's asses went astray and Saul being sent in search of them was led to the prophet Samuel, who anointed him king over Israel.
His providences are always in favor of the righteous.
How many can look back through their lives and see how the providences of God have directed their ways.
Again, we would say, oh, how blessed to await the providences of God!
I say there are providences unto which we would have the blessings entailed, but they are not.
And this is to show us how knowing and quick-sighted they are in all providences and dark dispensations, and how nimble in apprehending the mischievous designs of the enemies of God's church, and so how able they are to undermine them.
I say, I wonder that he doth not withdraw his protecting providences from them, and leave them to those dangers and destructions that by their sin they have deserved, and that by their bedlam madness they would rush themselves into.
Is it not that we might be still when the world is disturbed; and that we might hope for good things to come out of such providences that, to sense, look as if themselves would eat up and devour all?
I tell thee this day that in all thy past life I have ordered and administered all My providences toward thee to humble thee and to prove thee, and to make thee dust and ashes in thine own eyes.
We must wait on His word and on His providences while they examine us all this week.
It is because we do not acceptprovidences that providences hurt.
We are ignorant of hidden motions and principles, of Satan's suggestions, of corresponding or discordant circumstances, of future providences and events.
Thy very afflictive providences have met my wishes, and been so many answers to my prayers.
Many of those providences which appear to us dark and dismal, are wheels turning round 'the truth of thy salvation;' opening our blinded eyes to the issues of sin, and also delivering from the snares of the devil.
The Lord's providences to me and mine have not been of the ordinary kind, and you, as one in it, seem to be a partaker with us.
Such terms of Numenius or Amelius as he seems to ignore are the various Demiurges; the three Plutarchian Providences he himself still uses.
In other words, so necessary were distinctions in the divinity, that the popular mind supplied other individual names to designate the distinctions Plotinos had successfully banished, for Demiurges and Providences no longer return.
Though these two accidents cost me, one three months, and the other much longer of a (partly bedridden) helplessness, were they not good providences to make one grateful?
Yet all these are providences too,--lessons of life, and parts of our schools and schoolmasters.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "providences" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
