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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
Dedication: TO THE Right Honourable WILLIAM EARL of BEDFORD, Lord RUSSELL of Thorne••ugh, and Knigh…
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.
My Lord, It is both your Honour and Interest, to be [Greek or Hebrew], the entire and devoted servant of Providence. It was once the wish of a good man, optarem id me esse Deo, quod est mihimanus mea. This is the most Noble and Divine life that can be, to live and act in this world upon Eternal designs. To look upon our selves and ⟨image 5⟩what we have, as things devoted to God; not to be content that Providence should serve it self of us, (for so it doth even of those things which understand nothing of it) but to study wherein we may serve Providence, and be instrumental in its hand for the good of many; this is to be truly Honourable; quo magis quis Deo vivit, eo evadit nobilJor, clarJor, divinJor.
My Lord, It is both your Honour and Interest, to be 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, the entire and devoted servant of Providence. It was once the wish of a good man, optarem id me esse Deo, quod est mihimanus mea. This is the most Noble and Divine life that can be, to live and act in this world upon Eternal designs. To look upon our selves and ⟨image 5⟩what we have, as things devoted to God; not to be content that Providence should serve it self of us, (for so it doth even of those things which understand nothing of it) but to study wherein we may serve Providence, and be instrumental in its hand for the good of many; this is to be truly Honourable; quo magis quis Deo vivit, eo evadit nobilJor, clarJor, divinJor.
How much God hath honoured you in this respect, the World will understand better, when your Lordship shall be gathered to your Fathers, and sleep in the dust, then he that praiseth, cannot be suspected of flattery; nor he that is praised, be moved with vain glory: But the approbation of God, is infinitely better than the most glorious Name among men, before, or after death.