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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.
But all that I have said is very inconsiderable, in comparison with the spiritual mercies, and advantages you here enjoy for your souls. Oh, this is such an advantageous cast of Providence for you, as obliges you to a thankful acknowledgement of it, to all Eternity. For let us here make but a few suppositions in the case before us, and the glory of Providence will shine like a Sun-beam full in your faces.
But all that I have said is very inconsiderable, in compa•ison with the spiritual mercJes, and advantages you here enjoy for your souls. Oh, this is such an advantageous cast of Providence for you, as obliges you to a thankful acknowledgement of it, to all Eternity. For let us here make but a few suppositions in the case before us, and the glory of Providence will shine like a Sun-beam full in your faces.
(1.) Suppose it had been your Lot to have fallen in any of those vast Continents possessed by Pagans and Heathens at this day, who bow down to the Stock of a Tree, and worship the Host of Heaven. This is the case of Millions, and Millions of Millions:1 for Pagan Idolaters (as that searching Scholar Mr. Bri••wood informs us) do not only fill the circumference of nine hundred miles in Europe, but almost the one half of Africa, more than the half of Asia, and almost the whole of America.
(1.) Suppose it had been your Lot to have fallen in any of those vast Continents possessed by Pagans and Heathens at this day, who bow down to the Stock of a Tree, and worship the Host of Heaven. This is the case of Millions, and Millions of Millions:1 for Pagan Idola••rs (as that searching Scholar Mr. Bri••wood informs us) do not only fill the circumference of nine hundred miles in Europe, but almost the one half of Africa, more than the half of AsJa, and almost the whole of America.