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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.
This performance of Providence for you, doth very much concern your present comfort in this world. All the rooms in this great house are not alike pleasant and commodious for the Inhabitants of it. You read Psal. 74. 20. of the dark places of the Earth, which are full of the habitatJonr of cruelty: and many such dismal places are found in the habitable Earth. What a vast tract of the world lies as a waste Wilderness?
Suppose your Mothers had brought you forth in America, among the Salvage Indians, who herd together as brute beasts; are scorched with heat, and starved with cold; being naked, destitute and defenceless. How poor, miserable and unprovided of Earthly comforts and accommodations, are many Millions of the Inhabitants of this world? What mercies do you enjoy in respect of the amenity, fertility, temperature and civility of the place of your habitation? What is it but a Garden enclosed out of a Wilderness? I may without partiality or vanity say, God hath (even upon temporal accounts) provided you with one of the healthfullest, pleasantest, and in all respects, the best furnished room in all the ⟨p. 41⟩great house of this world. Hear what our own Chronicler saith of it,1 It is the fortunate Island, the Paradise of pleasure, the Garden of God; whose Valleys are like Eden, whose Hills are as Lebanon, whose Springs are as Pisgah, whose Rivers are as Jordan, whose Wall is the Ocean, and whose Defence is the Lord Jehovah.
Suppose your Mothers had brought you forth in America, among the Salvage IndJans, who herd together as brute beasts; are scorched with heat, and starved with cold; being naked, destitute and defenceless. How poor, miserable and unprovided of Earthly comforts and accommodations, are many Millions of the Inhabitants of this world? What mercies do you enjoy in respect of the amaenity, fertility, temperature and civility of the place of your habitation? What is it but a Garden inclosed out of a Wilderness? I may without partiality or vanity say, God hath (even upon temporal accounts) provided you with one of the healthfullest, pleasantest, and in all respects, the best furnished room in all the