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Q: What are God's works of providence?
A: God's works of providence are, his most holy, wise, and powerful preserving and governing all his creatures and all their actions.
Westminster Shorter Catechism Q11

We declare that by God's providence, not only heaven and earth and inanimate creatures, but also the counsels and wills of men, are governed so as to move precisely to that end destined by Him.
John Calvin

Providence has ordered that condition for you which is best for your eternal good. If you had more of the world than you have, your heads and hearts might not be able to manage it to your advantage.
John Flavel

A firm faith in the universal providence of God is the solution of all earthly problems. It is almost equally true that a clear and full apprehension of the universal providence of God is the solution of most theological problems.
B.B. Warfield

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Title	Notes
The Worst Things	An excerpt from Thomas Watson's "A Divine Cordial" 1663
God’s Will about the Future - James 4:13-17	C.H. Spurgeon (pdf)
God's Providence - Part 1	John Calvin - Institutes (1.16) - The world, created by God, still cherished and protected by Him. Each and all of its parts governed by His providence.
God's Providence - Part 2	John Calvin - Institutes (1.17) - Use to be made of the doctrine of providence.
God's Providence - Part 3	John Calvin - Institutes (1.18) - The instrumentality of the wicked employed by God, while He continues free from every taint.
A Dark Providence from the Life of Elijah	A.W. Pink
Creation and Providence	Francis R. Beattie - A Commentary on the Westminster Standards
Discerning Providential Guidance	Samuel Pike and S. Hayward - From Religious Cases of Conscience (1755)
God's Providence	Charles Spurgeon
God's Providence Over All	B.B. Warfield
Important Lessons Drawn from the Decrees of God	Thomas Boston
Is God Less Glorious Because He Ordained that Evil Be?	John Piper
Jehovah-Jireh: A Treatise on Providence	William S. Plumer (1865)
Jehovah-Jireh: A Treatise on Providence (.pdf)	William Plumer
My Times in God's Hand	Octavius Winslow
Noontide at Sychar - A Chapter in Providence and Grace	John MacDuff (1877) - The Story of Jacob's Well (John 4)
Of God's Eternal Decrees	David Dickson - Truth's Victory Over Error
Of Providence	Louis Berkhof - Summary of Christian Doctrine
Of The Prescience and Providence of God	John Gill
Of the Providence of God	Thomas Boston
Of the Providence of God	John Gill
Prayer and the Decrees of God	John Howe (1630-1705)
Providence	A.A. Hodge - A Commentary on the Westminster Confession
Providence	Robert L. Dabney - Systematic Theology
Provodence and Human Action	John Calvin
The Divine Decrees	Louis Berkhof - Summary of Christian Doctrine
The Glory of God in the Problem of Evil	Matt Perman
The God of Providence, The God of the Bible	Alexander Carson
The Properties Of God's Decrees Explained	Thomas Boston
The Providence of God	Thomas Watson - A Body of Divinity
The Purpose of God's Decrees	Thomas Boston
The Will of God	Francis Turretin
“What are God's works of providence?”	James Fisher (1753) - The Shorter Catechism Explained (Q11)
“What are God's works of providence?”	John Flavel - An Exposition of the Assembly's Shorter Catechism
“What are God's works of providence?”	Matthew Henry - A Scripture Catechism in the Method of the Assembly's
“What are God's works of providence?”	Thomas Vincent - The Shorter Catechism of the Westminster Assembly Explained and Proved from Scripture
“What are God's works of providence?”	John Whitecross - The Shorter Catechism Illustrated