The soveraign efficacy of divine providence; over ruling and omnipotently disposing and ordering all humane counsels and affairs, asserted, demonstrated and improved, in a discourse evincing, that (not any arm of flesh, but) the right hand of the Most High is it, that swayeth the universal scepter of this lower world's government. Oft wheeling about the prudentest management of the profoundest plotts, of the greatest on earth; unto such, issues and events, as are amazingly contrary to all humane probabilities, and cross to the confident expectation of lookers on. : As delivered in a sermon preached at Cambridge, on Sept. 10. 1677. Being the day of artillery election there. / By Mr. Urian Oakes, the late (and still to be lamented) Reverend Pastor of the Church of Christ in Cambridge: and learned president of Harvard Colledge. ; [Six lines of Scripture texts]

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Author:	Oakes, Urian, 1631-1681.
Title:	The soveraign efficacy of divine providence; over ruling and omnipotently disposing and ordering all humane counsels and affairs, asserted, demonstrated and improved, in a discourse evincing, that (not any arm of flesh, but) the right hand of the Most High is it, that swayeth the universal scepter of this lower world's government. Oft wheeling about the prudentest management of the profoundest plotts, of the greatest on earth; unto such, issues and events, as are amazingly contrary to all humane probabilities, and cross to the confident expectation of lookers on. : As delivered in a sermon preached at Cambridge, on Sept. 10. 1677. Being the day of artillery election there. / By Mr. Urian Oakes, the late (and still to be lamented) Reverend Pastor of the Church of Christ in Cambridge: and learned president of Harvard Colledge. ; [Six lines of Scripture texts]
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Print source:	The soveraign efficacy of divine providence; over ruling and omnipotently disposing and ordering all humane counsels and affairs, asserted, demonstrated and improved, in a discourse evincing, that (not any arm of flesh, but) the right hand of the Most High is it, that swayeth the universal scepter of this lower world's government. Oft wheeling about the prudentest management of the profoundest plotts, of the greatest on earth; unto such, issues and events, as are amazingly contrary to all humane probabilities, and cross to the confident expectation of lookers on. : As delivered in a sermon preached at Cambridge, on Sept. 10. 1677. Being the day of artillery election there. / By Mr. Urian Oakes, the late (and still to be lamented) Reverend Pastor of the Church of Christ in Cambridge: and learned president of Harvard Colledge. ; [Six lines of Scripture texts] Oakes, Urian, 1631-1681., Sherman, John, 1613-1685., Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts. Boston in New-England:: Printed for Samuel Sewall., 1682.
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title page TO THE READER ECCLESIASTES, IX.XI. I returned, and saw under the Sun, that the Race is not to the Swift, nor the Battel to the Strong, neither yet Bread to the Wise, nor yet Riches to Men of Vnderstanding, nor yet Favour to Men of Skill; but TIME, & CHANCE happeneth to them all. Advertisement.