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Westminster Larger Catechism
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What are God's works of providence?
God's works of providence are his most holy, wise, and powerful preserving and governing all his creatures; ordering …
What is God's providence towards the angels?
God by his providence permitted some of the angels, wilfully and irrecoverably, to fall into sin and damnation, …
What was the providence of God toward man in the estate in which he was created?
The providence of God toward man in the estate in which he was created, was the …
How doth God execute his decrees?
God executeth his decrees in the works of creation and providence, according to his infallible foreknowledge, and the free and immutable counsel of his own …
How is justification an act of God's free grace?
Although Christ, by his obedience and death, did make a proper, real, and full satisfaction to God's justice in the behalf of them that are justified; yet inasmuch …
What are the sins forbidden in the third commandment?
… unlawful; murmuring and quarreling at, curious prying into, and misapplying of God's decrees and providences; misinterpreting, misapplying, or any way perverting the word, or any part of it, to …
What is required of superiors towards their inferiors?
It is required of superiors, according to that power they receive from God, and that relation wherein they stand, to love, pray for, and bless their inferiors; to …
What are the duties required in the eighth commandment?
The duties required in the eighth commandment are, truth, faithfulness, and justice in contracts and commerce between man and man; rendering to everyone his due; restitution of goods …
What do we pray for in the first petition?
… atheism, ignorance, idolatry, profaneness, and: whatsoever is dishonorable to him; and, by his overruling providence, direct and dispose of all things to his own glory.
What do we pray for in the third petition?
… God, but prone to rebel against his word, to repine and murmur against his providence, and wholly inclined to do the will of the flesh, and of the devil: …
What do we pray for in the fourth petition?
… we pray for ourselves and others, that both they and we, waiting upon the providence of God from day to day in the use of lawful means, may, of …
What do we pray for in the sixth petition?
… in the use of them, that we and all his people may by his providence be kept from being tempted to sin; or, if tempted, that by his Spirit …
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Revelation (General and Special)
God's self-disclosure through the works of creation and providence (general revelation) and through his prophetic and apostolic Word (special revelation). WCF I.1 teaches …
The Eternal Decree
… infralapsarian readings. The decree is unconditioned by foreseen creaturely action and is executed through providence.
Providence
… preserving and governing all his creatures and all their actions. WCF V covers ordinary providence, the concourse of secondary causes, God's permission of sin, and the special providence toward …
Divines
William Fiennes, 1st Viscount Saye and Sele
1582–1662
Patriarch of the Independent peers; Providence Island and Saybrook colony patron.
Edward Corbet
d. 1658
Merton then Magdalen Oxford; parliamentary visitor.
Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick
1587–1658
Lord High Admiral of the Parliament’s fleet; senior New England patron.