ABSTRACT
The acts of God are acts of His grace, creative acts which correspond in the ordering of creation in the dimension of time and things and the existence of humanity, to His eternal existence. In this ordering God does not accord a place to evil. But they were realistic in their theology. They recognized that evil does exist within the created order, though not as either a creation of God or as co-eternal with Him. Lancelot Andrewes is a realist and he notes the physical, medical and hygienic aspects of the plague and the social consequences. The plague comes not by chance, casually, but by God's judgment, and therefore causally, the cause being our sin which provokes His anger. In saying all this, Andrewes is asserting quite clearly that God is in control of the movement and fortune of all human affairs.
