@inbook{10.7722/j.ctt163tc5f.16, ISBN = {9781843832539}, URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7722/j.ctt163tc5f.16}, abstract = {Royalist providentialism is not a topic that has received a great deal of attention from historians. In the most authoritative recent accounts of providence, both Alexandra Walsham and Blair Worden acknowledge its existence; but neither devotes much space to exploring what it meant.¹ The guiding assumption is that insofar as providential ideas were applied to politics this was mainly done by puritans. The godly believed that they were uniquely equipped to interpret the sovereign decrees of an all-controlling Calvinist God, and indeed that it was their duty to do so. Through an understanding of God’s judgments, they were convinced that}, author = {RICHARD CUST}, booktitle = {Religious Politics in Post-Reformation England}, edition = {NED - New edition}, pages = {193--208}, publisher = {Boydell and Brewer}, title = {Charles I and Providence}, year = {2006} }