A Pattern of Catechistical Doctrine
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ISBN13: 9780217154109
Paperback|9780217154109
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Part beholds vac, let him be religious and acknowledge God's: ? hand;' so say we, let him that looketh on the death of these men learn to be godly, learn to acknowledge that there is a God. And thus much of that first point against the atheist. CHAPTER III. OF THE SECOND QUESTION: WHETHKB GOD BE A BEWABDLB OF GOOD AND EVIL. The Second point is, that He hath regard and is a re- warder of good and evil.?For we must not only know the essence and being of God, by which little glory cometh to Him, and less profit to us; but we must also know His providence; and they which deny His providence are semi- atheists, as the Epicures, who though by the reasons of the heathen they confess there is a God, yet they deny His providence utterly, and therefore are half-atheists. 1. Opinions concerning providence. Of His providence there are four opinions; 1. That there is none at all, but that He doth as it were draw the heavens a curtain betwixt Him and us; 2. That there is a providence, but it is of general things not of particular; 3. That there is a providence, both of general and particular things, but it is idle and not rewarding; 4. That there is a providence both of general and particular things, which rewardeth good to the good and evil to the evil; and this is the truth which we hold. Objections against a providence considered. For the first their reasons are three; a. first, the adversity of the good and prosperity of the wicked; for, say they, if there were any Providence, he would ee that it should be bonis bene, malis male, ' well with the good, ill with the wicked;' /3. the abuse of gifts; for Providence would have giventhe use with the gifts, or else would not have given so good CHAP. gifts to them that should use them so ill; '...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217154109 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217154107 |
| Weight | 1.42 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.98 In |
| List Price | $23.19 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 440 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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