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Providence

God's government of the world and of individual lives; his hand in history, chance, and second causes.

310 sermons under this heading.

  1. Der Wälschen ihr Perche, der Lateiner ihr Quare, und der Deutschen ihr Warum wird allhier in Kürze beantwortet
  2. The way in which God leads his people
  3. The Government of God Desirable
  4. Predica V In questa quinta predica si tratta come Idio ci mostra a noi e' suoi grandi giudici, con molte belle ragioni.
  5. Sur la providence
  6. Fighting the Stars
  7. That GOD is the creatour of all thinges, and gouerneth all thinges by his prouidence: where mention is also made of the good-will of God to vs ward, and of Predestination
  8. Every Man’s Life a Plan of God
  9. Light on the Cloud
  10. Lecture 2 on Jonah The Prayer
  11. Lecture 4 on Jonah The Prayer
  12. Sermon 104 on Job
    John Calvin · Job 29 · No. 104
  13. Sermon 139 on Job
    John Calvin · Job 36 · No. 139
  14. Sermon 159 on Job
    John Calvin · Job 42 · No. 159
  15. Sermon 165 on Deuteronomy
    John Calvin · Deuteronomy 29 · 7 April 1556 · No. 165
  16. Sermon 180 on Deuteronomy
    John Calvin · Deuteronomy 32 · 1 June 1556 · No. 180
  17. Sermon 181 on Deuteronomy
    John Calvin · Deuteronomy 32 · 2 June 1556 · No. 181
  18. Sermon 2 on Job
    John Calvin · Job 1 · No. 2
  19. Sermon 20 on Job
    John Calvin · Job 5 · No. 20
  20. Sermon 47 on Job
    John Calvin · Job 12 · No. 47
  21. Sermon 48 on Job
    John Calvin · Job 12 · No. 48
  22. Sermon 78 on Job
    John Calvin · Job 21 · No. 78
  23. Sermon 79 on Job
    John Calvin · Job 21 · No. 79
  24. Sermon 81 on Job
    John Calvin · Job 21 · No. 81
  25. Sermon 82 on Job
    John Calvin · Job 21 · No. 82
  26. Sermon 85 on Job
    John Calvin · Job 22 · No. 85
  27. Sermon 90 on Job
    John Calvin · Job 23 · No. 90
  28. Homily 15 on Romans
  29. Homily 2 on 2 Thessalonians
  30. Homily I. Against Those Who Say that Demons Govern Human Affairs
  31. The destined superiority of the Negro
  32. Herod and Peter
  33. Angels and hornets
  34. Stirring the nest
    A. C. Dixon · No. 10
  35. The unfailing barrel and cruse
  36. Preached at S. Pauls in the Evening, Vpon the day of S. Pauls Conversion. 1628
    John Donne · Acts 28:6 · No. 48
  37. What is God’s Will?
  38. Mercy and Judgment
  39. The Sovereignty of God
  40. God's Awful Judgment
  41. The Sole Consideration, that God is God, Sufficient to Still all Objections
  42. All Events Ruinous to the Sinner
  43. All Things for Good to Those that Love God
  44. All Things for Good to Those that Love God
  45. Allthings Conspire for Evil to the Sinner
  46. Where Sin Occurs God Cannot Wisely Prevent it
  47. Wherefore Do the Wicked Live
    Charles Grandison Finney · Job 21:7 · 13 February 1861
  48. Progress and God
  49. The Idea of Progress
  50. The Perils of Progress
  51. Homily 35 on the Acts of the Apostles
  52. Homily 36 on the Acts of the Apostles
  53. Homily 38 on the Acts of the Apostles
  54. Homily 83 on the Acts of the Apostles
  55. Homily 84 on the Acts of the Apostles
  56. Duties Inculcated by the Sovereignty of God
  57. The Race not to the Swift
  58. The thyrd Sermon vpon Ionas, made by Iohn Hoper the .v. of Marche
    John Hooper · No. 3
  59. The sins of men are so under the direction and controul of God, as to glorify him, and subserve the good of his kingdom, in every instance of it which he suffers to take place
  60. Thirteen Sermons on Various Subjects: Sermon 1
    John Howe · Acts 1:7 · No. 1
  61. On Presumptuously Scrutinizing the Divine Decrees
  62. On the Justice of the Divine Decrees
  63. Thanksgiving after Laying the Foundation of the . National Scotch Church, Regent Square*
  64. Discourse 26
  65. Discourse 29
  66. Discourse 5
  67. “Behind and Before.”
  68. Divine Visitations
  69. Sound the Great Recall
  70. The Ministry of the Cloud
  71. The Revelation in the After Days
  72. Death
  73. God’s Training
  74. Life
  75. Life and Death
  76. Providence
  77. The Days of the Week
  78. The Earthquake
    Charles Kingsley · Psalms 46:1 · 11 October 1863 · No. 15
  79. The God of the Rain
  80. The Life of the Spirit
  81. The Meteor Shower
    Charles Kingsley · Matthew 10:29 · 26 November 1866 · No. 16
  82. What is Chance?
  83. „ MIJN WOL EN MIJN VLAS.”
  84. Thy Oversight hath Preserved My Spirit
  85. The Victor in the Times of Preparation
    Henry Parry Liddon · Isaiah 40:3 · 8 March 1867 · No. 6
  86. It is God that works wonders through His saints
  87. 'All Things are Yours'
  88. ‘Clear Shining after Rain’
  89. A Path in the Sea
  90. A Plot Detected
  91. A Prophet's Strange Providers
  92. A Song of Deliverance
  93. A Song of Deliverance
  94. A Total Wreck, All Hands Saved
  95. Death and Growth
  96. Feeding in the Ways
  97. Goodness in a Dungeon
  98. Growth by Transplanting
  99. Guidance in the Way
  100. Joseph, the Pardoner and Preserver
  101. Joseph, the Prime Minister
  102. Luther—A Stone on the Cairn
  103. Man’s Passions and God’s Purpose
  104. Mordecai and Esther
  105. Nearness to God the Key to Life’s Puzzle
  106. Now to Secure a Prosperous Voyage
  107. Rome Protects Paul
  108. The Ark among the Flags
  109. The Blind Man's Guide
  110. The Bread of God
  111. The Bush that Burned, and Did Not Burn Out
  112. The Delays of Love
  113. The Eagle and its Brood
  114. The Empty Throne Filled
  115. The Guiding Pillar
  116. The Husbandman and His Operations
  117. The Lesson of Memory
  118. The Lord’s Furnace
  119. The Mountain Road
  120. The Old Store an the New
  121. The Old Store and the New
  122. The Patient Workman
  123. The Perpetual Pillar of Cloud and Fire
  124. The Rivers of God
  125. The Two-fold Aspect of the Divine Working
  126. Three Pictures of One Reality
  127. Two Retrospects of One Life
  128. Psalm 119: Sermon 62
  129. Psalm 119: Sermon 96
  130. Twenty Sermons: Sermon 14 ()
  131. Right Thoughts in Sad Hours
  132. In reparatione ecclesiae Mediolanensis
  133. Testimony Confirmed by Experience
  134. The Continued Agency of the Father and the Son
  135. The Sleepless Night
  136. Clay in the Potter's Hand
  137. Environment
  138. the Divine Government of Human Lives
  139. The Message of Esther
  140. The Message of Exodus
  141. The Passage of the Grounded Staff
    John Mason Neale · Isaiah 30:32 · 31 July 1859 · No. 11
  142. What We are to Learn from the Rain
  143. The government of God, matter of rejoicing
  144. God’s presence with a people the spring of their prosperity
  145. Human power defeated
    John Owen · Psalms 76:5 · No. 16
  146. Providential changes, an argument for universal holiness
    John Owen · 2 Peter 3:11 · No. 12
  147. Providential changes, an argument for universal holiness
    John Owen · 2 Peter 3:11 · No. 11
  148. Providential changes, an argument for universal holiness
    John Owen · 2 Peter 3:11 · No. 10
  149. Providential changes, an argument for universal holiness
    John Owen · 2 Peter 3:11 · No. 13
  150. The shaking and translating of heaven and earth
  151. The Presence of God
  152. The Witness of Our Fathers
    Henry Codman Potter · Psalms 1:3 · 17 April 1890
  153. Sermon XIX: Preached on the Tuesday Afternoon, Nov. 4
  154. Den 24 Mars
  155. Den 7 Juni
  156. God’s Restraining Power
  157. All the Dlspensations of Providence Are Good
  158. All Things Work for Good
  159. Belshazzar's Death
  160. Dark Dispensations Overruled for the Establishment of the Saints
  161. Elijah and the Widow of Sarepta
  162. Elisha Predicts the Atrocious Acts of Hazael
  163. Equity of the Divine Procedure
  164. Every Thing Needful Provided for Us
  165. God Contemplated
  166. God Is the Disposer of All Events
  167. God Recompenses Our Works
  168. God the Only Author of Good and Evil
  169. God the Source and Cause of All Things
  170. GOD VIEWED IN JOSEPIl's ADVANCEMENT
  171. God's Care for His People
  172. God's Care for His People
  173. God's Care for the Righteous
  174. God's Care of His People
  175. God's Condescension to His People's Weakness
  176. God's Continued Mercies to Us
  177. God's Dealings with His People Opened
  178. God's Disposition Towards the Righteous and Wicked
  179. God's Government, a Ground of Joy
  180. God's Regard for His People
  181. God's Ways Dark, but Just
  182. God's Word and Works Mysterious. Ps. XXXVI. 6. Thy Judgments Are a Great Deep
  183. God's Works of Providence and Grace
  184. godV interest in his people
  185. HEZEKIAh's deliverance from SENNACHERIB
  186. IMMUTABILITY OF GOd's COUNSELS
  187. Jacob Obtaining the Blessing
  188. Jehovah-Jireii, the Lord Will Provide
  189. Joseph's advancement
  190. Nebuchadnezzar's dream verified and improved
  191. Of God
  192. On Us
  193. Our Times in God's Hand
  194. Parents
  195. Paul Bitten by a Viper, and Uninjured
  196. Pharaoh's Elevation to the Throne of Egypt
  197. Preservation of Noaii
  198. Prosperity of Sinners Not to Be Envied
  199. Protection Promised to the Godly
  200. Revolt of the Ten Tribes
  201. Sending of the Manna
  202. Stability the Gift of God
  203. The Day of Small Things
  204. The Dispensations of God Towards Jews and Gentiles
  205. The Doctrine of a Particular Providence
  206. The Importance of Being in Favour with God
  207. The Journeys of Israel Regulated by God
  208. The Manner in Which God Dispenses His Favours
  209. The Pillar and the Cloud
  210. THE SECURITY OF GOd's PEOPLE
  211. THE widow's oil INCREASED
  212. Use of God's Diversified Dispensations
  213. A Sermon Preached at Westminster-Abbey, February 22. 1684/5
    Robert South · 22 February 1684 · No. 8
  214. All Contingencies Under the Direction of God’s Providence
    Robert South · Proverbs 16:33 · 22 February 1684 · No. 8
  215. Prevention of Sin an unvaluable Mercy
    Robert South · 1 Samuel 25:32–33 · 10 November 1678 · No. 22
  216. Prevention of Sin An Unvaluable Mercy: or, A Sermon Preached upon that Subject, on I Sam. XXV. 32, 33. at Christ-Church, Oxon. Nov. 10. 1678
  217. Sermon 33 (Psalm 106:7)
  218. The peculiar care and concern of Providence for the protection and defence of kings
    Robert South · Psalms 144:10 · 5 November 1675 · No. 36
  219. All is well
  220. "My Times Are In Your Hand"
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon · Psalms 31:15 · 17 May 1891 · No. 2205
  221. "The King Can Do No Wrong"
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon · 2 Samuel 3:36 · 7 July 1895 · No. 2420
  222. "This Thing Is From Me"
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon · 1 Kings 12:24 · 2 August 1896 · No. 2476
  223. “All These Things”—A Sermon with Three Texts
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon · Genesis 42:36 · 18 October 1868 · No. 837
  224. A Promise and a Providence
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon · Ezekiel 34:15 · 7 September 1916 · No. 3528
  225. A Stanza of Deliverance
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon · Psalms 105:37 · 31 January 1892 · No. 2241
  226. A Welcome Discovery
  227. An Instructive Truth
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon · Jeremiah 10:23 · 21 July 1904 · No. 2893
  228. Blessings Manifold and Marvelous
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon · Psalms 18:19 · 2 September 1915 · No. 3474
  229. Brought Out to Be Brought In
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon · Deuteronomy 6:23 · 4 April 1897 · No. 2511
  230. Co-workers With God
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon · Psalms 127:1–2 · 6 March 1898 · No. 2559
  231. Could He Not? Ah! But He Would Not
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon · John 11:37 · 20 August 1914 · No. 3420
  232. Daily Blessings for God's People
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon · Psalms 68:19–20 · 6 January 1916 · No. 3493
  233. Declaring the Works of the Lord
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon · Psalms 118:17 · 24 October 1897 · No. 2540
  234. Divine Destruction and Protection
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon · Ezekiel 17:29 · 13 January 1916 · No. 3494
  235. Divine Interpositions
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon · Psalms 18:16 · 8 September 1878 · No. 1432
  236. Divine Surprises
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon · Isaiah 64:3 · 16 May 1880 · No. 1538
  237. Ebenezer!
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon · 1 Samuel 7:12 · 15 March 1863 · No. 500
  238. Esther's Exaltation—or, Who Knows?
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon · Esther 4:13–14 · 27 April 1884 · No. 1777
  239. Everywhere And Yet Forgotten
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon · Job 12:9–10 · 29 July 1860 · No. 326
  240. Eyes Opened
  241. Fathomless
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon · Psalms 36:6 · 21 August 1913 · No. 3368
  242. Filling Up the Measure of Iniquity
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon · Genesis 15:16 · 6 June 1907 · No. 3043
  243. Four Choice Sentences
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon · Genesis 28:15 · 3 February 1881 · No. 1630
  244. God of the Hills and God of the Valleys
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon · 1 Kings 20:28 · 27 August 1876 · No. 1311
  245. God-Guided Men
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon · Galatians 1:16 · 6 February 1908 · No. 3078
  246. God—All in All
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon · Job 34:29 · 24 February 1867 · No. 737
  247. God's Advocates Breaking Silence
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon · Job 36:2 · 17 March 1878 · No. 1403
  248. God's Barriers Against Man's Sin
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon · Jeremiah 5:22–23 · 16 November 1856 · No. 220
  249. God's Care of Elijah
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon · 1 Kings 17:4 · 24 August 1911 · No. 3264
  250. God's Hand at Evening
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon · Ezekiel 33:22 · 22 February 1912 · No. 3290
  251. God's Handwriting Upon David
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon · 1 Chronicles 28:19 · 30 October 1892 · No. 2280
  252. God's Providence
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon · Ezekiel 1:15–19 · 15 October 1908 · No. 3114
  253. God's Will About the Future
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon · James 4:13–17 · 7 February 1892 · No. 2242
  254. Guidance To Grace and Glory
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon · Psalms 73:24 · 2 December 1894 · No. 2389
  255. Hagar at the Fountain
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon · Genesis 16:13–14 · 8 November 1885 · No. 1869
  256. In the Hay Field
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon · Psalms 104:14 · 23 June 1867 · No. 757
  257. Jacob's Waking Exclamation
  258. Jehovah-Jireh
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon · Genesis 22:14 · 12 October 1884 · No. 1803
  259. Jehovah-Shammah
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon · Ezekiel 35:10 · 25 October 1863 · No. 536
  260. Labor In Vain
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon · Jonah 1:12–13 · 1 May 1864 · No. 567
  261. Lions Lacking—But the Children Satisfied
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon · Psalms 34:10 · 10 February 1856 · No. 65
  262. Looking for One Thing and Finding Another
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon · 1 Samuel 9:3 · 16 January 1908 · No. 3075
  263. Moab Is My Washpot
  264. Moses' Dying Charge to Israel
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon · Deuteronomy 8:2 · 28 January 1894 · No. 2345
  265. No Difference
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon · Matthew 5:45 · 12 May 1878 · No. 1414
  266. Providence
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon · Matthew 10:30 · 11 April 1858 · No. 187
  267. Providence—as Seen in the Book of Esther
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon · Esther 9:1 · 1 November 1874 · No. 1201
  268. Remembering God's Works
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon · Psalms 111:4–5 · 17 September 1903 · No. 2849
  269. Retrospect—"The Lord Has Blessed"
  270. Rough, But Friendly
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon · Genesis 42:25 · 6 November 1913 · No. 3379
  271. The Blind Befriended
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon · Isaiah 42:16 · 9 March 1876 · No. 1310
  272. The Commissariat of the Universe
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon · Psalms 104:28 · 17 June 1909 · No. 3149
  273. The Empty Seat
  274. The Glory in the Rear
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon · Isaiah 57:8 · 3 August 1884 · No. 1793
  275. The Hairs of Your Head Numbered
  276. The Hand of God in the History of a Man
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon · Job 7:1 · 10 October 1875 · No. 1258
  277. The Hungry Filled, the Rich Emptied
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon · Luke 1:53 · 20 December 1906 · No. 3019
  278. The Inexhaustible Barrel
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon · 1 Kings 17:16 · 18 December 1859 · No. 290
  279. The Infallibility of God’s Purpose
  280. The King's Mowings
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon · Amos 7:1 · 28 January 1909 · No. 3129
  281. The Lesson of the Almond Tree
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon · Jeremiah 1:11–12 · 10 June 1900 · No. 2678
  282. The Lord'S Care Of His People
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon · Zechariah 2:8 · 27 April 1862 · No. 452
  283. The Principal Wheat
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon · Isaiah 28:25 · 25 August 1881 · No. 1626
  284. The Ravens' Cry
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon · Psalms 147:9 · 14 January 1866 · No. 672
  285. The Royal Deathbed Sermon
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon · Amos 3:6 · 22 December 1861 · No. 426
  286. The Sealed Hand—a Winter Sermon
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon · Job 37:7 · 15 February 1912 · No. 3289
  287. The Sermon of the Seasons
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon · Genesis 8:22 · 14 March 1886 · No. 1891
  288. The Sieve
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon · Amos 9:9 · 16 August 1868 · No. 825
  289. The Sight of Iniquity
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon · Habakkuk 1:3 · 27 January 1901 · No. 2711
  290. The Solar Eclipse
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon · Isaiah 45:7 · 14 March 1858 · No. 183
  291. The Sound in the Mulberry Trees
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon · 2 Samuel 5:24 · 31 May 1857 · No. 147
  292. The True Christian's Blessedness
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon · Romans 8:28 · 18 October 1857 · No. 159
  293. The Unchanging God Cheering Jacob in His Change of Dwelling Place
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon · Genesis 46:1–4 · 1 December 1889 · No. 2116
  294. The Unconquerable King
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon · Daniel 4:34–35 · 4 September 1870 · No. 949
  295. The Vanguard and Rereward of the Church
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon · Isaiah 52:12 · 26 December 1858 · No. 230
  296. The Voice Behind Thee
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon · Isaiah 30:21 · 23 July 1882 · No. 1672
  297. The Yoke Removed and the Lord Revealed
  298. Their Desired Haven
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon · Psalms 107:30 · 22 August 1912 · No. 3316
  299. Three Blessings of the Heavenly Charter
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon · Job 10:12 · 25 June 1893 · No. 2314
  300. Wakeful and Watchful Eyes
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon · Psalms 121:4 · 24 December 1899 · No. 2654
  301. What Are the Clouds?
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon · Nahum 1:3 · 19 August 1855 · No. 36
  302. The Insignificant
  303. Why are Satan and Sin Permitted?
  304. The Wisdom of God in His Providence
  305. Divine Goodness and the Mystery of Suffering
  306. The Providence Of God
  307. On Divine Providence
    John Wesley · Luke 12:7 · No. 67
  308. The Cause and Cure of Earthquakes
    John Wesley · Psalms 46:8 · No. 129
  309. God the King of the World
  310. The Potter's Vessel
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