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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.
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,1 with many other abominable Idols which our Ancestors worshipped, and whose memorials are not to this day quite obliterated among us.
- 1•ide Ver•igan's British Antiquities.•ide Ver•igan's British Antiqui•i•s.
(5.) Or suppose our Lot had fallen in those later miserable days, in which Queen Mary sent so many hundreds to Heaven in a fiery Chariot▪ and the poor Protestants skulked up and down in ⟨p. 45⟩holes and woods, to preserve them from Popish Inquisitors, who like Blood-hounds, hunted up and down through all the Cities, Towns and Villages of the Nation, to seek out the poor sheep of Christ for a prey.