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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.
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.
(3.) Or if neither of these had been your Lot, but you had been emptied by the womb of Nature into this little spot of the Earth which is Christianized by profession, but nevertheless for the most part over-run by Popish Idolatry, and Antichristian delusions; what unhappy men and women had you been, had you sucked a Popish breast? For this people are to be the subjects of ⟨p. 44⟩the Vials of Gods wrath to be poured out successively upon them, as you may read Rev. 16. and the Scriptures in round and plain language tell us, what their fate must be, 2 Thess. 2. 11, 12. And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lye, that they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
(3.) Or if neither of these had been your Lot, but you had been emptied by the womb of Nature into this little spot of the Earth which is ChristJanized by profession, but nevertheless for the most part over-run by Popish Idolatry, and AntichristJan delusions; what unhappy men and women had you been, had you suckt a Popish breast? For this people are to be the subjects of