A learned and profitable treatise of Gods prouidence Written for the instruction and comfort of the godly: for the winning and conuersion of sinners: and for a terror to the obstinate and prophane: diuided into sixe parts. By Ralph Walker preacher of the Word.

Title

A learned and profitable treatise of Gods prouidence Written for the instruction and comfort of the godly: for the winning and conuersion of sinners: and for a terror to the obstinate and prophane: diuided into sixe parts. By Ralph Walker preacher of the Word.

Author

Walker, Ralph, preacher of the word.

Publication

At London :: Imprinted by Felix Kyngston for Thomas Man,

1608.

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Providence and government of God -- Early works to 1800.

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Contents

• title page
• TO THE WOR∣THIE, ANCIENT, AND most vertuous two houses of the Right Honourable the Lord Harington Baron of Exton in the Countie of Rutland, and Sir William Fitzwilliam of Milkton in the Countie of Northampton Knight; grace and peace be multiplied from God the Father, and from our Lord Iesus Christ.
• To the Reader.
• THE ANALYSIS, OR summe of the whole Booke.
• text
  • A LEARNED AND PROFITABLE treatise of Gods Pro∣uidence.
    • That all things in the World, whe∣ther they liue, mooue, or haue a beeing, are maintained and go∣uerned by Gods Prouidence.
    • Gods generall Prouidence prooued by his word.
    • God speciall Prouidence ouer his Church, prooued his Word.
    • Gods Prouidence ouer the wicked.
    • That those things which seeme mea∣nest in our eyes, are maintained and kept by Gods Prouidence.
    • Gods Prouidence prooued by the testimonies of the holy Fathers.
    • Gods Prouidence prooued by testi∣monies of Heathen Writers.
    • Gods Prouidence prooued by meere reason.
  • THE SECOND PART, wherein is especially con∣tained,
  • THE THIRD PART, wherein is especially con∣tained, Whether Gods Prouidence is immutable or not; and if it be, whether it imposeth a necessitie vpon all things gouerned by it.
  • THE FOVRTH PART, wherein is especially con∣tained;
    • That although God doth gouern all things, and that so, as his gouernment can nei∣ther be altered nor hindered, yet that he cannot be the author of sin, although he is the principall cause of euery action, with the which the sinne concurreth.
    • That God willeth his owne glory prin∣cipally, as the sole end wherefore hee willeth all other things.
    • That God so willeth the euill of the pu∣nishment, as that he is the principall cause and inflicter thereof.
    • That God willeth sin as it is a punish∣ment of sinnes before committed.
    • That God doth will sinne as it is an ac∣tion in ward or outward.
    • That God doth will sinne as it is a guilt, or obligation, wherin we stand bound vnto him, to vndergoe the punish∣ment our sinnes haue deserued.
    • That God doth not will sin, as it is sim∣plie a transgression of his law, but doth only willingly permit it.
    • That there is a difference betweene Gods willing of that which is good, and that which is euill.
    • That God can by no meanes be the Au∣thor of sinne, as it is simplie a trans∣gression of his law.
    • That Satan and our selues are the sole causes of the sinnes we commit.
    • That although in euery of our actions there are three causes, and that eue∣rie of these worke that which is good, yet that it is from our selues, that our actions are euill.
    • A rule to know when our actions are good, and when euill: and what cau∣seth either.
  • THE FIFTH PART, wherein are especially con∣tained, Seuerall answeres vnto all such obiections, as either directly, or by consequence, seeme to contradict and gaine-say the doctrine of Gods Prouidence: As also vnto such, as vpon a grant thereof, or otherwise from any pretended shew of reason, are alledged to prooue God the author of sinne.
    • God gouernes all things by his heauen∣ly Prouidence.
    • That the wicked line in greatest honor, prosperitie, and abundance: but the god'y in pouertie, disgrace, and affli∣ction.
    • Obiections against the doctrine of the manner of Gods gouernment, with the answers vnto them.
    • Obiections and false conclusions infer∣red vpon this doctrine, that God is the author of the euill of the punish∣ment: with the Answeres vnto them.
    • Obiections alleaged to prooue God the Author of sinne, with the Answers vnto them.
  • THE SIXTH PART, Containing the vses of the Doctrines deliuered.