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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.
The first Performance of Providence.
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And First,1 Let us consider, how well Providence hath performed the first work that ever it did for us, in our formation and protection in the womb. Certainly, this is a very glorious and admirable performance; it's that the Psalmist admires, Psal. 139. 15. My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lower parts of the earth. The Womb is so called upon this account, because as curious Artists, when they have some choice piece in hand, perfect it in private, and then bring it into the light for all to gaze at; so it was here. And there are two things admirable in this performance of Providence for us.
ANd First,1 Let us consider, how well Providence hath performed the first work that ever it did for us, in our formatJon and protectJon in the womb. Certainly, this is a very glorious and admirable performance; it's that the Psalmist admires, Psal. 139. 15. My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curJously wrought in the lower parts of the earth. The Womb is so called upon this account, because as curious Artists, when they have some choice piece in hand, perfect it in private, and then bring it into the light for all to gaze at; so it was here. And there are two things admirable in this performance of Providence for us.