28. *It may be expected that I should mention what some have accounted, a fourth sort of _Enthusiasm_, namely, The imagining those things to be owing to the providence of God, which are not owing thereto. But I doubt. I know not what things they are, which are not owing to the providence of God: in ordering, or, at least, in governing of which, this is not either directly or remotely concerned, I except nothing but sin: and even in the sins of others, I see the providence of God to _me_. I do not say, his _general providence_; for this I take to be a sounding word, which means just nothing. And if there be a _particular providence_, it must extend to all persons and all things. So our Lord understood it, or he could never have said, _Even the hairs of your head are all numbred_. And, _Not a sparrow falleth to the ground, without the will of your Father which is in heaven_. But if it be so, if God presides _universis tanquam singulis, et singulis tanquam universis_; over the whole universe as over every single person, over every single person as over the whole universe: what is it (except only our own sins) which we are not to ascribe to the providence of God? So that I cannot apprehend, there is any room here, for the charge of _Enthusiasm_. 29. *If it be said, The charge lies here: “when you impute _this_ to providence, you imagine yourself the peculiar favourite of heaven.” I answer, you have forgot some of the last words I spoke, _Præsidet universis tanquam singulis_. His providence is over all men in the universe, as much as over any single person. Don’t you see, that he who believing this, imputes any thing which befalls him to providence, does not therein make himself any more the favourite of heaven, than he supposes every man under heaven to be? Therefore you have no pretence, upon this ground, to charge him with _Enthusiasm_. 30. Against every sort of this, it behoves us to guard, with the utmost diligence: considering the dreadful effects it has so often produced, and which indeed naturally result from it. Its immediate offspring is pride; it continually increases this source from whence it flows, and hereby it alienates us more and more, from the favour and from the life of God. It dries up the very springs of faith and love; of righteousness and true holiness. Seeing all these flow from grace. But God _resisteth the proud and giveth grace_ only _to the humble_.