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{"content":[{"abbv":"wcf","body":"The almighty power, unsearchable wisdom, and infinite goodness of God so far manifest themselves in his providence, that it extendeth itself even to the first fall, and all other sins of angels and men; and that not by a bare permission, but such as hath joined with it a most wise and powerful bounding, and otherwise ordering, and governing of them, in a manifold dispensation, to his own holy ends; yet so, as the sinfulness thereof proceedeth only from the creature, and not from God, who, being most holy and righteous, neither is nor can be the author or approver of sin.","chapter":"5","citation":"WCF 5.4","long_citation":"Confession of Faith 5.4","name":"Confession of Faith","paragraph":"4","prooftexts":{},"section_title":"","title":"Chapter 5: Of Providence","type":"confession"}],"content_with_prooftexts":[{"abbv":"wcf","body":"The almighty power, unsearchable wisdom, and infinite goodness of God so far manifest themselves in his providence, that it extendeth itself even to the first fall, and all other sins of angels and men;<sup id='fnref:wcf1'><a href='#fn:wcf1' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>1</a></sup> and that not by a bare permission,<sup id='fnref:wcf2'><a href='#fn:wcf2' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>2</a></sup> but such as hath joined with it a most wise and powerful bounding,<sup id='fnref:wcf3'><a href='#fn:wcf3' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>3</a></sup> and otherwise ordering, and governing of them, in a manifold dispensation, to his own holy ends;<sup id='fnref:wcf4'><a href='#fn:wcf4' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>4</a></sup> yet so, as the sinfulness thereof proceedeth only from the creature, and not from God, who, being most holy and righteous, neither is nor can be the author or approver of sin.<sup id='fnref:wcf5'><a href='#fn:wcf5' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>5</a></sup>","chapter":"5","citation":"WCF 5.4","long_citation":"Confession of Faith 5.4","name":"Confession of Faith","paragraph":"4","prooftexts":{"1":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 11:32-34</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45011032.01-1\">For God has consigned all to disobedience, that he may have mercy on all.</p>\n <p id=\"p45011033.01-1\">Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways!</p>\n <div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p45011034.01-1\">“For who has known the mind of the Lord,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>or who has been his counselor?”</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>2 Samuel 24:1</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p10024001.03-2\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v10024001-2\">24:1 </span>Again the anger of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> was kindled against Israel, and he incited David against them, saying, “Go, number Israel and Judah.”</p>\n</div><h5>1 Chronicles 21:1</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p13021001.05-3\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v13021001-3\">21:1 </span>Then Satan stood against Israel and incited David to number Israel.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Kings 22:22-23</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p11022022.01-4\">And the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> said to him, ‘By what means?’ And he said, ‘I will go out, and will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.’ And he said, ‘You are to entice him, and you shall succeed; go out and do so.’ Now therefore behold, the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> has put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these your prophets; the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> has declared disaster for you.”</p>\n</div><h5>1 Chronicles 10:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p13010004.01-5\">Then Saul said to his armor-bearer, “Draw your sword and thrust me through with it, lest these uncircumcised come and mistreat me.” But his armor-bearer would not, for he feared greatly. Therefore Saul took his own sword and fell upon it.</p>\n</div><h5>2 Samuel 16:10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p10016010.01-6\">But the king said, “What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah? If he is cursing because the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> has said to him, ‘Curse David,’ who then shall say, ‘Why have you done so?’”</p>\n</div><h5>Acts 2:23</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44002023.01-7\">this Jesus, delivered up according to the definite plan and foreknowledge of God, you crucified and killed by the hands of lawless men.</p>\n</div><h5>Acts 4:27-28</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p class=\"same-paragraph\" id=\"p44004027.01-8\">for truly in this city there were gathered together against your holy servant Jesus, whom you anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, along with the Gentiles and the peoples of Israel, to do whatever your hand and your plan had predestined to take place. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>","2":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Acts 14:16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44014016.01-1\">In past generations he allowed all the nations to walk in their own ways. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>","3":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 76:10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19076010.01-1\">Surely the wrath of man shall praise you;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>the remnant of wrath you will put on like a belt.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>2 Kings 19:28</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p12019028.01-2\">Because you have raged against me<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and your complacency has come into my ears,<br />\nI will put my hook in your nose<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and my bit in your mouth,<br />\nand I will turn you back on the way<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>by which you came. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>","4":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Genesis 50:20</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p01050020.01-1\">As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring it about that many people should be kept alive, as they are today.</p>\n</div><h5>Isaiah 10:6-7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23010006.01-2\">Against a godless nation I send him,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and against the people of my wrath I command him,<br />\nto take spoil and seize plunder,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.<br />\n But he does not so intend,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and his heart does not so think;<br />\nbut it is in his heart to destroy,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and to cut off nations not a few;</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Isaiah 10:12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p23010012.01-3\">When the Lord has finished all his work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, he will punish the speech of the arrogant heart of the king of Assyria and the boastful look in his eyes. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>","5":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>James 1:13-14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p59001013.01-1\">Let no one say when he is tempted, “I am being tempted by God,” for God cannot be tempted with evil, and he himself tempts no one. But each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire.</p>\n</div><h5>James 1:17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p59001017.01-2\">Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.</p>\n</div><h5>1 John 2:16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p62002016.01-3\">For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride in possessions—is not from the Father but is from the world.</p>\n</div><h5>Psalm 50:21</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19050021.01-4\">These things you have done, and I have been silent;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>you thought that I was one like yourself.<br />\nBut now I rebuke you and lay the charge before you. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>"},"section_title":"","title":"Chapter 5: Of Providence","type":"confession"}],"feed":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<title></title>\n\n</head>\n<body>\n<h5 class=\"mb-0 header\" style=\"display:block; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:18px\">Confession of Faith</h5>\n<h5 class=\"text-muted mb-1\" style=\"display:block; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:18px\">Chapter 5: Of Providence</h5>\n<p class=\"paragraph\" style=\"display:block; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:16px\"><span class=\"q\">4.</span> The almighty power, unsearchable wisdom, and infinite goodness of God so far manifest themselves in his providence, that it extendeth itself even to the first fall, and all other sins of angels and men;<sup id=\"fnref:wcf1\"><a href=\"#fn:wcf1\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">1</a></sup> and that not by a bare permission,<sup id=\"fnref:wcf2\"><a href=\"#fn:wcf2\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">2</a></sup> but such as hath joined with it a most wise and powerful bounding,<sup id=\"fnref:wcf3\"><a href=\"#fn:wcf3\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">3</a></sup> and otherwise ordering, and governing of them, in a manifold dispensation, to his own holy ends;<sup id=\"fnref:wcf4\"><a href=\"#fn:wcf4\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">4</a></sup> yet so, as the sinfulness thereof proceedeth only from the creature, and not from God, who, being most holy and righteous, neither is nor can be the author or approver of sin.<sup id=\"fnref:wcf5\"><a href=\"#fn:wcf5\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">5</a></sup></p>\n <div class=\"prooftexts\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">\n <ol class=\"disc\">\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:1\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Romans 11:32-34</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p45011032.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">For God has consigned all to disobedience, that he may have mercy on all.</p>\n <p id=\"p45011033.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways!</p>\n <div class=\"block-indent\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p45011034.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\u201cFor who has known the mind of the Lord,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>or who has been his counselor?\u201d</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">2 Samuel 24:1</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p10024001.03-2\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v10024001-2\">24:1\u00a0</span>Again the anger of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> was kindled against Israel, and he incited David against them, saying, \u201cGo, number Israel and Judah.\u201d</p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">1 Chronicles 21:1</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p13021001.05-3\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v13021001-3\">21:1\u00a0</span>Then Satan stood against Israel and incited David to number Israel.</p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">1 Kings 22:22-23</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p11022022.01-4\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">And the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> said to him, \u2018By what means?\u2019 And he said, \u2018I will go out, and will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.\u2019 And he said, \u2018You are to entice him, and you shall succeed; go out and do so.\u2019 Now therefore behold, the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> has put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these your prophets; the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> has declared disaster for you.\u201d</p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">1 Chronicles 10:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p13010004.01-5\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">Then Saul said to his armor-bearer, \u201cDraw your sword and thrust me through with it, lest these uncircumcised come and mistreat me.\u201d But his armor-bearer would not, for he feared greatly. Therefore Saul took his own sword and fell upon it.</p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">2 Samuel 16:10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p10016010.01-6\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">But the king said, \u201cWhat have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah? If he is cursing because the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> has said to him, \u2018Curse David,\u2019 who then shall say, \u2018Why have you done so?\u2019\u201d</p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Acts 2:23</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p44002023.01-7\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">this Jesus, delivered up according to the definite plan and foreknowledge of God, you crucified and killed by the hands of lawless men.</p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Acts 4:27-28</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p class=\"same-paragraph\" id=\"p44004027.01-8\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">for truly in this city there were gathered together against your holy servant Jesus, whom you anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, along with the Gentiles and the peoples of Israel, to do whatever your hand and your plan had predestined to take place. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:2\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Acts 14:16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p44014016.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">In past generations he allowed all the nations to walk in their own ways. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:3\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Psalm 76:10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<div class=\"block-indent\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19076010.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">Surely the wrath of man shall praise you;\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>the remnant of wrath you will put on like a belt.</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">2 Kings 19:28</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<div class=\"block-indent\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p12019028.01-2\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">Because you have raged against me\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and your complacency has come into my ears,\nI will put my hook in your nose\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and my bit in your mouth,\nand I will turn you back on the way\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>by which you came. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:4\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Genesis 50:20</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p01050020.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring it about that many people should be kept alive, as they are today.</p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Isaiah 10:6-7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<div class=\"block-indent\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23010006.01-2\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">Against a godless nation I send him,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and against the people of my wrath I command him,\nto take spoil and seize plunder,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.\n But he does not so intend,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and his heart does not so think;\nbut it is in his heart to destroy,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and to cut off nations not a few;</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Isaiah 10:12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p23010012.01-3\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">When the Lord has finished all his work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, he will punish the speech of the arrogant heart of the king of Assyria and the boastful look in his eyes. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:5\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">James 1:13-14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p59001013.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">Let no one say when he is tempted, \u201cI am being tempted by God,\u201d for God cannot be tempted with evil, and he himself tempts no one. But each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire.</p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">James 1:17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p59001017.01-2\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.</p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">1 John 2:16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p62002016.01-3\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">For all that is in the world\u2014the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride in possessions\u2014is not from the Father but is from the world.</p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Psalm 50:21</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<div class=\"block-indent\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19050021.01-4\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">These things you have done, and I have been silent;\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>you thought that I was one like yourself.\nBut now I rebuke you and lay the charge before you. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n </ol>\n </div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","title":"Of providence, part 4"}