...who embrace it, to ascribe the whole glory of their salvation to God, enables them, with consistency, to " Assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to man." That several wise and good men think differently on this subject, is no reason for concluding that...

...it claims to be by no means that, and that only. It starts with a dogmatic aim ; it avowedly intends to " assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to man ". In this point of view we have always had a sympathy with the Cambridge mathematician who has been...

...past. One supreme motive and aim pervades the work, fashions its form and determines its spirit — to "assert eternal providence and justify the ways of God to man." To this pre-eminent purpose of vindicating the Divine attitude, as revealed in the evolution of our...

...comprehend the peculiarity of its vastness and greatness. A breath of solemnity hovers all around : it was to " assert eternal providence, And justify the ways of God to man." Begun about 1658, it was completed six years later. As a Christian poem or a religious subject it finds...

...conception of Divine sovereignty could have so wonderfully achieved the task which its author essayed, "To assert eternal Providence And justify the ways of God to man." The works of Bunyan are also historical documents of inestimable value. Though they represent another...

...of it could elaborate itself so perfectly and so intricately. There is assuredly much to incline us to assert eternal providence and justify the ways of God to man." If the whole of nature is purposive, it is not likely that we can discern special purposes operating...

...of the creation of the earth, but it shows how a great Puritan of the seventeenth century who tried to "assert Eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to man" looked upon the problem of the origin of sin. A Tale of Two Cities may not satisfy students of history...

...which predetermines both organization and behavior. This is not the noble quest of a Milton seeking to "assert eternal Providence and justify the ways of God to man," but rather the desperate effort of self-seeking men to avoid responsibility for their antisocial acts...

...answer: now the slain figures do not rise and offer new life; they only rot. Once Milton had attempted to assert eternal providence and justify the ways of God to man, but modern poets like Archibald MacLeish, dealing with the same problems of good and evil that Milton...

...and benevolent discipline of Providence cannot but be seen ; and it is one of our first duties thus to "Assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to man." To his difficulties we owe his invaluable contributions to literature; and there is no doubt that their...