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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.
Henry the Second of France in a great rage against a Protestant Counsellor, committed him to the hands of one of his Nobles to be imprisoned, and that with these words, that he would see him burned with his own eyes: but mark the righteous providence of God, within a •ew days after, the same Noble man, with a Lance put into his hands by the King, did at a Tilting match run the said King into one of his eyes, whereof he dyed.
Henry the Second of France in a great rage against a Protestant Counsellor, committed him to the hands of one of his Nobles to be imprisoned, and that with these words, that he would see him burned with his own eyes: but mark the righteous providence of God, within a •ew dayes after, the same Noble man, with a Lance put into his hands by the King, did at a Tilting match run the said King into one of his eyes, whereof he dyed.
Yea, Providence hath made the very place of sinning, the place of punishment, 1 King. 21. 19. In the place where Dogs licked the blood of Naboth, shall Dogs lick, thy blood: and it was exactly fulfilled, 2 Kings 9. 26. Thus Tophet is made a burying place for the Jews, till there was no room ⟨p. 28⟩to bury; and that was the place where they had offered up their Sons to Molech, Jer. 7. 31, 32. The Story of Nightingale is generally known which Mr. Fox relates, how he f•ll out of the Pulpit and brake his neck, whilst he was abusing that Scripture, 1 John 1. 10.