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