Providence

This is from a book I am reading by Thomas Watson:

"The truths of the gospel are evident and infallible...A Christian may come not merely to a vague opinion, but to a certainty of what he holds...So all God’s providences, being divinely tempered and sanctified, work together for the best to the saints...He who loves God and is called according to His purpose, may rest assured that everything in the world shall be for his good...If all things work for good, hence learn that there is a providence. Things do not work of themselves, but God sets them working for good. God is the great Disposer of all events and issues. He sets everything working. ‘His kingdom ruleth over all’ Psalm 103:19. It is meant of His providential kingdom. Things in the world are not governed by second causes, by the counsels of men, by the stars and planets, but by divine providence. There are three things in providence: God’s foreknowing, God’s determining, and God’s directing all things to their periods and events. Whatever things do work in the world, God sets them a working."