58 – Preservation

PRESERVATION

 § 58. The continuous preservation of the inanimate and irrational world is, as its first creation was, a work of the Triune God, who by immediate¹ and mediate² action preserves and continues what He created in the beginning.

1. The continuous preservation of the inanimate and irrational world is, as its first creation was, a work of the Triune God, who by immediate

Hebrews 1:3 Who being the brightness of His glory, and the express image of His person, and upholding all things by the word of His power.

Colossians 1:17 And He is before all things, and by Him all things consist.

2. and mediate action preserves and continues what He created in the beginning.

Acts 14:17 He did good, and gave us rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons.

Acts 17:25 He giveth to all life, and breath, and all things.

Genesis 1:11–12 And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit-tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.

Genesis 8:22 While the earth remaineth, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.