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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.
True,1 they do so; and it is of very sad consideration that it should be so; but yet we cannot deny this to be a very choice and singular mercy, to be born in such a Land, and at such a Time. For let us consider what helps for salvation men here enjoy, beyond what they could enjoy, had ⟨p. 46⟩their Lot fallen according to the fore-mentioned suppositions.
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(1.) Here we enjoy the ordinary means of salvation, which elsewhere men are denied and cut off from. So that if any among the Heathens be saved and brought to Christ, it must be in some miraculous or extraordinary way: for, How shall th•y believe in him of whom they have not heard▪ and how shall they hear without a Preacher? Rom. 10. 14. Alas! were there a desire awakened in any of their hearts after a Gospel discovery of salvation, (which ordinarily is not, nor can be rationally supposed) yet, poor Creatures, they might travel from Sea to Sea, to hear th• Word, and n•t find it: whereas you can hardly miss the opportunities of hearing the Gospel: Sermons meet you frequently, so that you can scarcely shun or avoid the Ordinances and Instruments of your salvation. And is this nothing? Christ even forces himself upon us.
(1.) Here we enjoy the ordinary means of salvation, which elsewhere men are denyed and cut off from. So that if any among the Heathens be saved and brought to Christ, it must be in some miraculous or extraordinary way: for, How shall thy belJeve in him of whom they have not heard and how shall they hear without a Preacher?