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Divine Conduct, or The Mystery of Providence
Divine conduct, or, The mystery of Providence wherein the being and efficacy of Providence is asserted and vindicated : the methods of Providence as it passes through the several stages of our lives opened : and the proper course of improving all Providences / directed in a treatise upon Psalm 57 ver 2 by John Flavell ...Divine conduct, or, The mysterie of Providence wherein the being and efficacy of Providence is asserted and vindicated : the methods of Providence as it passes through the several stages of our lives opened : and the proper course of improving all Providences / directed in a treatise upon Psalm 57 ver 2 by John Flavell ...
London: printed by R.W. for Francis Tyton, 1678
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Haman erected a Gallows fifty Cubits high for good Mordecai, and God so ordered it, that himself and his ten Sons were hanged on it. And indeed it was but meet, that he should eat the fruit of that tree which himself had planted, Esther 7. 10.
Ahitophel plots against David, and gives counsel like an Oracle, how to procure his fall; and that very counsel, like a surcharged Gun, recoils upon himself, and procures his ruin: for seeing his good counsel rejected, (good politically, not morally,) it was now easy for him to guess at the issue, and so at his own fate, 2 Sam. 17. 23.
Ahitophel plots against David, and gives counsel like an Oracle, how to procure his fall; and that very counsel, like a surcharged Gun, recoils upon himself, and procures his ruine: for seeing his good counsel rejected, (good politically, not morally,) it was now easie for him to guess at the issue, and so at his own fate, 2 Sam. 17. 23.
Charles the Ninth most inhumanely made the very Canals of Paris to stream with Protestant blood, and soon after he died miserably, his blood streaming from all parts of his body.