III. Understanding Ordinary and Extraordinary Providences (Paragraph 3).
a. God's use of means – ‘God in his ordinary Providence maketh use of means'
b. God's prerogative to suspend the ordinary use of means – ‘yet is free to work without, above and against them at his pleasure'
IV. The Mystery of Providence: The Place of Sin (Paragraph 4).
a. God's predetermination and sin – his determinate Councel extendeth itself even to the first fall, and all other sinful actions of both Angels and Men'
b. God's sovereignty over sin and its effects – ‘(and that not by a bare permission) which he wisely and powerfully boundeth, and otherwise ordereth, and governeth, in a manifold dispensation to his most holy ends'
c. God is not the author of sin – ‘yet so, as the sinfulness of their acts proceedeth only from the Creatures, and not from God; who being most holy and righteous, neither is nor can be, the author or the approver of sin.'
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Pastor Jeff came to Christ at age 20 while serving in the U.S. Navy. He earned his undergraduate degree in Management from the University of Redlands and his graduate degree in Theological Studies from Westminster Seminary California. He also earned a certificate of completion...