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THE WAYS OF PROVIDENCE. of our arrangements are forbidden; for if we are disobedient in the means we employ, we cannot expect the divine approbation and blessing. We find it necessary to devote yet another chapter to the case of Jacob.
CHAPTER VII. Jacob and the completeness of his case as illustrating providence.— The abduction of Dinah.—Her violent recovery and the slaughter of the abductionists by Simeon and Levi.—Jacob's fear of the consequence.—Divine directions.—The terror of God on the neighbouring tribes.—Divine help not always apparent.—Evil allowed sometimes in punishment; sometime 1 ; in vindication.—Presumption excluded by the method of divine ways.—Constant need for faith and obedience.—The present state an evil state.—Divinely regulated on behalf of those whom God will choose.—jfacob as a broken-hearted father.—Joseph's disappearance.—Twenty years of darkness for Jacob, ending with famine, and greater darkness still.—The visit of his sons to Egypt.—Their rough experiences.— The joyful end of the matter. [JHE case of Jacob is perhaps one of the most striking in the whole range of scripture history, in the combination of human fear and divine guardianship. There are many cases of God preserving and delivering, but only in a few other cases— (notably Job, David, and Jeremiah)—have we such a complete exhibition of the mental distresses of those delivered and the human details of the process by which deliverance was wrought out. All cases of scripture illustration are really alike in principle, but in only a few cases is the picture drawn completely. Jacob is one of them. His experience is thoroughly, though so briefly pourtrayed. The result is, we can look at him closely,
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LONDON. J. DAVIS, PRINTER, STEAM WO
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ii. PREFACE. It proceeds on the ass
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CONTENTS. CHAPTER III—ABRAHAM. Pa
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CONTENTS. Page Nineveh.—Paul's sh
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CONTENTS. Page ministry.—The pre-
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CHAPTER I. Loose notions of provide
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THE WAYS OF PROVIDENCE. has placed
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THE WAYS OF PROVIDENCE. Korans, and
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THE WAYS OF PROVIDENCE. men, God fu
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THE WAYS OF PROVIDENCE what is call
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THE WAYS OF PROVIDENCE. " The Fathe
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THE WAYS OF PROVIDENCE. 15 traticn,
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THE WAYS OF PROVIDENCE. 119 develop
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THE WAYS OF PROVIDENCE. Next, we lo
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CHAPTER XL The conquest of Bashan.
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THE WAYS OF PROVIDENCE 133 Christ,
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THE WAYS OF PROVIDENCE. i37 But it
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THE WAYS OF PROVIDENCE. 139 On the
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THE WAYS OF PROVIDENCE. i49 Gideon,
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THE WAYS OF PROVIDEhCE i53 district
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THE WAYS OF PROVIDENCE. i55 Judah's
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THE WAYS OF PROVIDENCE. I5? In the
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THE WAYS OF PROVIDENCE 1?Q Adonijah
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CHAPTER XVI. The days of Davids exi
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THE WAYS OF PROVIDENCE i97 The way
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CHAPTER XVIII. Solomon.—His recog
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THE WAYS OF PROVIDENCE. 249 divine
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CHAPTER XXIII. From the Babylonish
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CHAPTER XXIV. The overthrow of the
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CHAPTER XXVII. Summary.—Nature of
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