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... For God being the Lord of nature, ruleth as himself pleaseth, without, yea, and against the rules of nature. To which power Salomon respecting, requesteth of God, that if in time of Famine, the people being assembled, should pray for plenty, it would please him so to cross or order those second causes, that the present plague might be removed. Which, if it should come rather by casual accidents, then by divine ordinance, should not need the use of prayers, were it never so extreme.
And what else meant God himself, Levit. 23.10. commanding his people of Israel, that the day after the Inning of the corn, they should bring a cease for an offering to the Lord, and shake it before him, and after that, it was lawful for them to eat bread of new wheat? And again in the feast of Pentecost, two loaves of their new corn, for a first fruits unto the Lord. vers. 17. In the Autumn also, the like use in the feast of Tabernacles: verse 39. then by all these ceremonies to teach them, that plenty ariseth not by man’s labour, sweat, or industry, but of God’s blessing only, and therefore he alone to be thanked, both for Harvest, and Vintage, and alone to be prayed unto, to preserve the corn, both on the ground, and in the barn, and withal to know how to use those blessings to Gods glory, and their own good. For this is the right use, saith Saint Paul, 1. Tim. 4.4. of God’s creatures, to sanctify them by prayer and thanksgiving. ...
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And what else meant God himself, Levit. 23.10. commanding his people of Israel, that the day after the Inning of the corn, they should bring a cease for an offering to the Lord, and shake it before him, and after that, it was lawful for them to eat bread of new wheat? And again in the feast of Pentecost, two loaves of their new corn, for a first fruits unto the Lord. vers. 17. In the Autumn also, the like use in the feast of Tabernacles: verse 39. then by all these ceremonies to teach them, that plenty ariseth not by man’s labour, sweat, or industry, but of God’s blessing only, and therefore he alone to be thanked, both for Harvest, and Vintage, and alone to be prayed unto, to preserve the corn, both on the ground, and in the barn, and withal to know how to use those blessings to Gods glory, and their own good. For this is the right use, saith Saint Paul, 1. Tim. 4.4. of God’s creatures, to sanctify them by prayer and thanksgiving. ...
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Ludwig Lavater on famines and God’s use of secondary causes
In the New Testament, Agabus the Prophet by the breath of God’s spirit, foretold of an universal famine over the whole world. Acts. 11.28. which fell out true in the reign of Claudius Caesar. These…
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