Providence in Early Modern England

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Oxford University Press, 1999 - 387
This book is the most extensive study to date of the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century belief that God actively intervened in human affairs to punish, reward, and chastise. Providentialism has often been seen as a distinctive hallmark of puritan piety. However, Dr. Walsham argues that it was a cluster of assumptions that penetrated every sector of English society, cutting across the boundaries created by status, creed, education, and wealth.

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Introduction
1
Providence Print and the Religion of Protestants
8
Sudden Deaths
65
Divine Providence and Public Calamities
117
32
124
The great earthquake
130
Prayers fit for the time
142
Unless ye repent
150
Prodigies Portents and Prophets
167
Providence Confessional Politics
224
Pauls Cross Prophecy
281
225
317
Conclusion
326
Bibliography of Primary Sources
335
Index
373
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Gods arrowe of the pestilence
156

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