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Martin Luther, God's Decree, and Whether One May Flee from a Deadly Plague You ought to think this way: “Very well, by God’s decree the enemy has sent us poison and deadly offal. Therefore I shall ask God mercifully to protect us. Then I shall fumigate, help purify the air, administer medicine, and take it. I shall avoid places and persons where my presence is not needed in order not to become contaminated and thus perchance infect and pollute others, and so cause their death as a result of my negligence. If God should wish to take me, he will surely find me and I have done what he has expected of me and so I am not responsible for either my own death or the death of others. If my neighbor needs me, however, I shall not avoid place or person but will go freely, as stated above. See, this is such a God-fearing faith because it is neither brash nor foolhardy and does not tempt God.” - Luther’s Works, vol 43, p. 132, “Whether One May Flee from a Deadly Plague.” (Emphases added.)
God the great Creator of all things does uphold, direct, dispose, and govern all creatures, actions, and things, from the greatest even to the least, by His most wise and holy providence, according to His infallible foreknowledge, and the free and immutable counsel of His own will, to the praise of the glory of His wisdom, power, justice, goodness, and mercy. Although, in relation to the foreknowledge and decree of God, the first Cause, all things come to pass immutably, and infallibly; yet, by the same providence, He orders them to fall out, according to the nature of second causes, either necessarily, freely, or contingently. God, in His ordinary providence, makes use of means, yet is free to work without, above, and against them, at His pleasure. - Westminster Confession of Faith 5:1-3 (Original Edition), "Of Providence" on the Puritan Hard Drive
PROVIDENCE, BY PASTOR JIM DODSON (7 Free SWRB MP3s. Best free audio series on providence by a contemporary minister! The fourth and fifth MP3s in this series are particularly spectacular messages.)
"Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father. But the very hairs of your head are all numbered." - Matthew 10:29-30, KJV
There are 56 Reformation resources (books and MP3s) by the Puritan John Flavel on the Puritan Hard Drive, including the six volume set entitled, The Works of John Flavel.
