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The tendency for earlier generations to lean so heavily on providence had been connected with the brevity and insecurity of life. Why Is Focusing on Sentences Important? Sentences are more than just strings of words.
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But divine providence interceded, for the wheel broke, the spikes flying off and injuring many bystanders. In , in Providence , Rhode Island, disturbances broke out after an unexplained murder of a black man by police. A year ago, in a loss at Providence , Abrams committed a critical turnover that wound up being the difference.
I awaken each morning and thank Providence for my good fortune in doing work I love. When Bud fires up the cast-iron Providence wood stove, a faint recollection of chickens emanates from the floor. Without wishing to tempt providence in any way, we appear to have got away lighting in so far as Winter is concerned.
It does not belong to a mere fallible human being to question the ways of divine providence. The city of Providence issued a call for a constitutional convention in , and similar efforts were made in , , , and , but nothing was accomplished.
Dorr , a young lawyer of Providence , began a systematic campaign for an extension of the suffrage, a reapportionment of representation and the establishment of an independent judiciary.
A convention summoned without any authority from the legislature, and elected on the principle of universal manhood suffrage, met at Providence , October 4-November 18, , and drafted a frame of government which came to be known as the People's Constitution. They were easily repulsed in an attack upon the Providence town arsenal, and Dorr, after a brief period of exile in Connecticut, was convicted of high treason on the 26th of April , and was sentenced to imprisonment for life.
When the last Federal census was taken in , Providence , Pawtucket, Woonsocket and Newport, with a combined population of ,, had four senators, whereas the remainder of the state, with a population of ,, had thirty-four.
Providence , with a population of , out of a total of ,, had one member in a Senate of thirty-eight and twenty-five members in a House of Representatives of one hundred. Bonds were issued on the 8th of November for the construction of a new state house at Providence , the corner stone was laid in October , and the building was thrown open to use on the 1st of January Rather it was a resolute determination to possess that control over the machine of state which should enable him to fulfil without let or hindrance the political mission with which he believed that Providence had charged him.
Swedenborg claimed also to have learnt by his admission into the spiritual world the true states of men in the next life, the scenery and occupations of heaven and hell, the true doctrine of Providence , the origin of evil, the sanctity and perpetuity of marriage and to have been a witness of the "last judgment," or the second coming of the Lord, which is a contemporary event.
The Divine Providence and Heaven and Hell have been published in popular editions. The completion of the second Temple B. Through all this runs the train of thought resulting naturally from Bruno's fundamental principles, and familiar in modern philosophy as Spinozism, the denial of particular providence , the doctrine of the uselessness of prayer, the identification in a sense of liberty and necessity, and the peculiar definition of good and evil.
There is, he concludes, no evidence for the doctrine of a divine superintending providence. So nothing at all was done officially, and the defence of the eastern Ukraine was left to providence. In several Edgartown families joined the association made up of Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket, Providence and Newport whalers, who founded Hudson, on the Hudson river, in Columbia county, New York.
Its full manifestation indeed, to the eye of sense and to the unbelieving world, lay in the future; but true faith found a present stay in the sovereignty of Yahweh, daily exhibited in providence and interpreted to each generation by the voice of the prophets.
So prone are they to transfer to Nature the part played by the providence of God! Yet they had views of their own as to God, Providence , the soul, and a future state, which, while they had a practical use, were yet essentially speculative. Josephus tells us too that the Essenes believed in fate; but in what sense, and what relation it bore to Divine Providence , does not appear. Some held that it forbade the administration of the sacraments except where they were already permitted; others maintained that it left Methodism free to follow the leadings of Providence as Wesley had always done.
While the majority of Protestant leaders left the conversion of the heathen to some remote and inscrutable interposition of Providence , the Jesuits, Franciscans, Dominicans and kindred orders were busily engaged in making Roman Catholics of the nations brought by Oriental commerce or American colonial enterprise into contact with Spain, Portugal and France. Burlington's charitable institutions include the Mary Fletcher hospital, the Adams mission home, the Lousia Howard mission, the Providence orphan asylum, and homes for aged women, friendless women and destitute children.
When on the last day of the year Queen Elizabeth granted a charter to George, earl of Cumberland, and other "adventurers," to be a body-corporate by the name of " The Governor and Company of Merchants of London trading with the East Indies," the expressed recognition of higher duties than those of commerce may by some be deemed a mere matter of form, and, to use the words of Bacon, " what was first in God's providence was but second in man's appetite and intention.
Hume had the greatest respect for the author of the Analogy, ranks him with Locke and Berkeley as an originator of the experimental method in moral science, and in his specially theological essays, such as that on Particular Providence and a Future State, has Butler's views specifically in mind.
The Essays are undoubtedly written with more maturity and skill than the Treatise; they contain in more detail application of the principles to concrete problems, such as miracles, providence , immortality; but the entire omission of the discussion forming part ii.
Young Howe was educated at Boston and at Brown University, Providence , and in began to study medicine in Boston. The Apology opens thus: "I, 0 king, by the providence of God came into the world; and having beheld the heaven, and the earth, and the sea, the sun and moon, and all besides, I 1 Codex Venet.
The Egyptians firmly believe in the efficacy of charms, a belief associated with that in an omnipresent and over-ruling providence. He painted with unceasing diligence, treating none but sacred subjects; he never retouched or altered his work, probably with a religious feeling that such as divine providence allowed the thing to come, such it should remain He was wont to say that he who illustrates the acts of Christ should be with Christ.
Balbus, speaking as a Stoic, discusses the existence of the gods, nature, the government of the world and providence. There is a large foreign trade and a regular steamship service to Boston, Providence , New York, Philadelphia and Savannah from Norfolk, and there is a considerable traffic on Chesapeake Bay, the Rappahannock, York, James and Elizabeth rivers. Four years later, after the death of her husband, she settled on Long Island Sound near what is now New Rochelle, Westchester county, New York, and was killed in an Indian rising in August , an event regarded in Massachusetts as a manifestation of Divine Providence.
In dealing with atheism Cudworth's method is to marshal the atheistic arguments elaborately, so elaborately that Dryden remarked "he has raised such objections against the being of a God and Providence that many think he has not answered them"; then in his last chapter, which by itself is as long as an ordinary treatise, he confutes them with all the reasons that his reading could supply.
Yet there is no opposition between the physical and final causes; in ultimate resort the mind is compelled to think the universe as the work of reason, to refer facts to God and Providence. The preamble of the constitution of this Alliance sufficiently indicates its nature: "Whereas, in the providence of God, the time has come when it seems fitting more fully to manifest the essential oneness in the Lord Jesus Christ, as their God and Saviour, of the churches of the Baptist order and faith throughout the world, and to promote the spirit of fellowship, service and co-operation among them, while recognizing the independence of each particular church and not assuming the functions of any existing organization, it is agreed to form a Baptist alliance, extending over every part of the world.
United States of America. Having been sentenced to banishment October by the Massachusetts Court because of his persistence in advocating separatistic views deemed unsettling and dangerous, to escape deportation to England he betook himself January to the wilderness, where he was hospitably entertained.
Later in the same year William Wickenden of Providence evangelized and administered the ordinances at Flushing, but was heavily fined and banished. The First Church, Providence , had long since become Arminian and held aloof from the evangelism of Edwards, Whitefield and their coadjutors.
As a result a charter was granted by the legislature in , and after a few years of preliminary work at Warren where the first degrees ever bestowed by a Baptist institution were conferred in , Providence was chosen as the home of the college If we cannot explain or foretell by reason what the exact course of events in nature will be, is it to be expected that we can do so with regard to the wider scheme of God's revealed providence?
To Butler the Christian religion, and by that he meant the orthodox Church of England system, was a moral scheme revealed by a special act of the divine providence , the truth of which was to be judged by the ordinary canons of evidence. A Stoic might consistently maintain that World-Soul, Providence , Destiny and Germinal Reason are not mere synonyms, for they express different aspects of God, different relations of God to things.
There must be countless indications of the course of Providence , for the most part unobserved, the meaning of only a few having become known to men. This finds most marked expression in the doctrines of submission to Providence and universal philanthropy. But his attention is claimed for physics chiefly as a means of elevating the mind, and as making known the wisdom of Providence and the moral government of the world. Seneca gives the true Stoic answer in his treatise On Providence : the wise man cannot really meet with misfortune; all outward calamity is a divine instrument of training, designed to exercise his powers and teach the world the indifference of external conditions.
With him even the " physical basis " of ethics takes the form of a religious dogma - the providence of God and the perfection of the world. The same men were not seldom assaulted under the name of "theists"; the later distinction between "theist" and "deist," which stamped the latter word as excluding the belief in providence or in the immanence of God, was apparently formulated in the end of the 18th century by those rationalists who were aggrieved at being identified with the naturalists.
He set little store on the theology of those who in a system of dry and barren notions "pay handsome compliments to the Deity," "remove providence ," "explode devotion," and leave but "little of zeal, affection, or warmth in what they call rational religion. In none of them is any theory on the subject specially prominent, except that in their denial of miracles, of supernatural revelation, and a special redemptive interposition of God in history, they seem to have thought of providence much as the mass of their opponents did.
Everything can be explained by a purely mechanical but not fortuitous system, in which there is no room for the idea of a providence or an intelligent cause working with a view to an end. Stoicism formulated a doctrine of providence or necessity. But while there are foreshadowings of the evolutionary theory in this work, neither the philosophe historians nor Hume nor Gibbon arrived at a constructive principle in history which could take the place of the Providence they rejected.
It substituted the work of the genius for the miraculous intervention of Providence , but, apart from certain abstract formulae such as Truth and Right, knew nothing of why or how.
Natural Theology is specially associated with the Stoic theories of providence in ancient times and with elaborations of the argument from design in the 18th century.
The Great Being confides specially to them its moral Providence , maintaining through them the direct and constant cultivation of universal affection, in the midst of all the distractions of thought or action, which are for ever withdrawing men from its influence..
Until the British government stepped in with its police and canals and railroads, between the people and what they were accustomed to consider the dealings of Providence , scarcely a year passed without some terrible manifestation of the power and the wrath of God.
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