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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 Third Performance of Providence.
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The next observable Performance of Providence, 1which must be heedfully adverted and weighed, is the designation of the stock and family out of which we should spring and rise. And truly, this is of special consideration, both as to our temporal and eternal good; for whether the families in which we grew up, were great or small in Israel; whether our parents were of the higher or lower Class, and rank among men: yet if they ⟨p. 49⟩were such as feared God and wrought righteousness, if they took any care to educate you religiously, and trained you up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord, you are bound to reckon it among your chief mercies, that you sprung from the loins of such parents: for from this Spring a double stream of mercy rises to you.
THe next observable Performance of Providence, 1which must be heedfully adverted and weighed, is the designatJon of the stock and family out of which we should spring and rise. And truly, this is of special consideration, both as to our temporal and eternal good; for whether the families in which we grew up, were great or small in Israel; whether our parents were of the higher or lower Class, and rank among men: yet if they ⟨p. 49⟩were such as feared God and wrought righteousness, if they took any care to educate you religiously, and trained you up in the nurture and admonitJon of the Lord, you are bound to reckon it among your chief mercies, that you sprung from the loins of such parents: for from this Spring a double stream of mercy rises to you.