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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.
(2.) Or suppose your Lot had fallen among Mahometans, who next to Pagans spread over the greatest tract of the Earth: for though Arabia bred that unclean Bird, yet it was not that Cage, that could long contain him; for, not only the Arabians, but the Persians, Turks and Tartars, do all bow down their backs under that grand Impostor. This poison hath dispersed it self through the veins of Asia, over a great part of Afric, even the Circumference of seven thousand miles, and stops not there, but hath tainted a considerable part of Europe also.
(2.) Or suppose your Lot had fallen among Mahometans, who next to Pagans spread over the greatest tract of the Earth: for though ArabJa bred that unclean Bird, yet it was not that Cage, that could long contain him; for, not only the ArabJans, but the PersJans, Turks and Tartars, do all bow down their backs under that grand Impostor. This poison hath dispersed it self through the veins of AsJa, over a great part of Africk, even the Circumference of seven thousand miles, and stops not there, but hath tainted a considerable part of Europe also.
Had your Lot fallen here, O what unhappy men and women had you been, notwithstanding the natural amenity and pleasantness of your native soil? You had then adored a grand Impostor, and dyed in a fools Paradise. Instead of Gods lively Oracles, you had been (as they now are) deceived to your eternal ruin with such fond, mad and wild dreams, as whoso considers would think, the Authors had more need of manacles and fetters, than arguments or sober answers.
Had your Lot fallen here, O what unhappy men and women had you been, notwithstanding the natural amenity and pleasantness of your native soil? You had then adored a grand Impostor, and dyed in a fools Paradise. Instead of Gods lively Oracles, you had been (as they now are) deceived to your eternal ruine with such fond, mad and wild dreams, as whoso considers would think, the Authors had more need of manacles and fetters, than arguments or sober answers.