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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.
(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.
- 1••Jerwoods EnquirJes, •hap. 13. p. 118, 119
Oh how deplorable had thy case been, if a Pagan Idolatress had brought thee forth, and Idolatry had been sucked in with thy Mothers milk! then in all probability, thou hadst been at this day worshipping Devils, and posting with full speed in the direct road to Damnation: for these are the people of Gods wrath, Jer. 10. 25. Pour out thy fury upon the Heathen that know the