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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.
Nay, you might have fallen into the same Land in which your habitation now is, and yet have had no advantage by it as to salvation, if he that chose the bounds of your habitations, had not also graciously determined the times for you, Acts 17. 26. For▪
(4.) Suppose your Lot had fallen where it is during the Pagan State of England, who for many hundred years were gross and vile idolaters. Thick darkness over-spread the people of this Island, and as in other Countries, the Devil was worshipped, and his lying Oracles zealously attended upon.
(4.) Suppose your Lot had fallen where it is during the Pagan State of England, who for many hundred years were gross and vile idolaters. Thick darkness over-spread the people of this Island, and as in other Countreys, the Devil was worshipped, and his lying Oracles zealously attended upon.
The shaking of the top of Jupiter's Oak in Dodona, the Caldron smitten with the rod in the hand of Jupiter's Image, the Laurel and Fountain in Daphne: these were the Ordinances on which the poor deluded Wretches waited. So in this Nation they worshipped Idols also: the Sun and Moon were adored for Gods,1 with many other abominable Idols which our Ancestors worshipped, and whose memorials are not to this day quite obliterated among us.
The shaking of the top of Jupiter's Oak in Dodona, the Caldron smitten with the rod in the hand of Jupiter's Image, the Lawrell and Fountain in Daphne: these were the Ordinances on which the poor deluded Wretches waited. So in this Nation they worshipped Idols also: the Sun and Moon were adored for Gods,