No providential issue now to separate the false from the true.
And his wife also, as it seems, having been every day on the point of bearing a child, by a providential chance brought her child to birth just at that time, when the herdsman was gone to the city.
This was very properly regarded as a providentialdeliverance for the mission, which had never been threatened with so formidable an opposition as at the beginning of the year.
He thought it best to await someprovidential opening for his escape.
The first influence that contributed to bring the military profession into friendly connection with religion was the received doctrine concerning the Providentialgovernment of affairs.
Belief in battle being the special sphere of Providential interposition, 249.
Deeply impressed with the affectionate delicacy which shrouded its own generosity under the cover of a providential supply to his wants, he pressed the gold to his lips with more ardour than ever the metal was greeted with by a miser.
By the extraordinary I mean those visits which I pay in consequence of some providential call, such as sickness, affliction, religious impression, etc.
I enjoyed also many proofs of the Lord’s providential care, one of which was so remarkable that I think it ought to be recorded.
Vava looked puzzled for a minute, and then laughed as she said, 'You mean that it is providential that they like one another?
Then, I suppose, it's providential that we get on together, or that any one ever likes any one else?
Haldane was inclined to believe that this irascible stranger was as providential as the croaking ravens that fed the prophet, and he promptly sought the gate and entered.
To her mind the providential feature in the matter was the chance that had come to her of counteracting the evil which the mother had unconsciously developed.
It seemed to him purely providential that the man who opened the door was the big lackey whom he had seen in Ryder Street the night before.
That was providential indeed,' said the cobbler; and all the congregation bawled 'Miracle.
This was a providential accommodation to me, which I received thankfully, both from the Lord and from him; and from thenceforth I thought I lay as well as ever I had done in my life.
If on estate an eye we cast, And pleasure there expect to find, A secret providential blast Gives disappointment to our mind: Who now's on top ere long may feel The circling motion of the wheel.
Accordingly I will no longer ask: How is it that man has the power to violate the providential order, and how is it that Providence allows him to do so?
It is this exception of persons on the part of progress which has perpetuated the belief in the natural and providential inequality of conditions, engendered caste, and given an hierarchical form to all societies.
It was a providential chance which enabled us, at last, to fasten upon a portion of the guilty parties.
By a fortuitous circumstance, or I should possibly say a providential one, Brighton Bill came by shortly afterwards.
And there appear to be two distinct providentialreasons for this.
Of the aqueous curvatures of this crest, we shall have more to say presently; meantime let us especially observe how the providential laws of beauty, acting with reversed data, arrive at similar results in the aiguilles and crests.
It is providential that these two useful minerals, coal and iron, are found together, and so conveniently near the geographical centre of Great Britain as to make them accessible to each section of the island.
It is not necessary to ascribe the origin of life to providential inspiration nor to the meddling of strange and outlandish deities, as all savage tribes did and some more civilized peoples still do.
Upon such a conception our modern plant life is seen to be a development of plants that have gone before, that all existing life is derived from preexisting, and not from providential interposition or special creations.
They tell us to seek, they give us rules for seeking, they make us exert our private judgment; but directly we come to any conclusion but theirs, they turn round and talk to us of our 'providential position.
Civil rights conceded to Protestant by a royal edict, 335 Providential interference, doctrine of, i.
The doctrine of providential interference bound up with that of predestination, 19 note Preemption, destruction of the prerogative of, i.
Such was the panic, that it was generally believed that nothing could prevent the permanent establishment of despotism, unless there were some immediate and providential interference on behalf of the Church and the people.
Aquinas, Thomas, on the doctrine of providential interference, i.
All that is spoken of is the predestined and divinely arranged order, the providential method, in which gifts are bestowed and opportunities offered.
The mechanical apparatus of types, paper, and printing seem to have been provided by the same providential foresight as the intellectual and the spiritual.
Our Indians continued to catch eels, (this catch begins in September)--a providential means of subsistence during winter.
Now he began to regard his afflictions in a providential light.
Our current national history must be regarded as singularly marked by beneficent Providential design.
