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Like a square peg in a round hole? ;-).
Oxford English Dictionary (the OED) illustrates three different meanings for the word with quotations from the writings of Defoe a century earlier:
1. The foreknowing and beneficent care and government of God (or of nature); divine direction, control, or guidance.
“providence which is...the administration of heaven’s government in the world”
1727, Defoe, Histor. Appar.
2. Applied to the deity as exercising prescient and beneficent power and direction.
“What Providence has reserved for me he only knows.”
1704, Defoe, 15th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm.
3. An instance or act of divine intervention; an event or circumstance which indicates divine dispensation. Special Providence, a particular act of direct divine intervention.
“How can he sweeten the bitterest providences!”
1718, Defoe, Crusoe.
Crusoe refers to Providence throughout the novel; his shifting from one meaning to another as occasion warrants is reflected in his sometimes capitalizing the word and sometimes not.
Interestingly, Defoe was a Puritan.