Book 1/Chapter 16
The nature of providence (section 4)
1. What does the word providence not refer to?
2. Is providence limited to foreknowledge?
3. If God governs the laws of nature only, what has been taken from Him?
God’s special providence (section 5)
1. If God controls the general laws only, what is no place left for?
2. If singular prosperity for the crops one year is from God, then what does that mean for “scarcity and famine”?
3. If fields are struck with hail and storms, what is this a sign of?
God’s providence and men (section 6)
1. What “absurd folly” do “miserable men” take upon themselves?
2. What one thing that might be thought of as governed by chance is actually governed by God?
These are the questions for the readings for Tuesday, February 17, and those readings can be found here.