a general providential control, 421, 422
a control extending to free actions of men in general, 422, 423
four sorts, preventive, permissive, directive, determinative, 423-425
rational proof of, 425-427
arguments a priori, 425, 426
arguments a posteriori, 426
opposed by theory of fatalism, 427
opposed by casualism, 427, 428
opposed by theory of a merely general providence, 428-431
its relation to miracles and works of grace, 431-433