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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.
(1.) Temporal and external mercies to your outward man. You cannot but know, that as Godliness entails a blessing, so wickedness and unrighteousness a curse upon posterity. An instance of the former you have in Gen. 17. 18, 20. On the contrary, you have the threatening, Zech. 5. 4. and both together, Prov. 3. 33. The Curse of the Lord is in the house of the wicked, but he Blesseth the habitation of the just. True it is, that both these imply the Children's treading in the steps of their Parents, according to Ezek. 18. but how frequently is it seen, that wicked men breed their children vainly and wickedly; so that as it's said of Abijam, 1 Kings 15. 3. He walked in all the sins of his father, which he had done before him; and so the curse is entailed from generation to generation. To escape this Curse, is a choice Providence.
(1.) Temporal and external mercies to your outward man. You cannot but know, that as Godliness entails a blessing, so wickedness and unrighteousness a curse upon posterity. An instance of the former you have in Gen. 17. 18, 20. On the contrary, you have the threatning, Zech. 5. 4. and both together, Prov. 3. 33. The Curse of the Lord is in the house of the wicked, but he Blesseth the habitatJon of the just. True it is, that both these imply the Childrens treading in the steps of their Parents, according to Ezek. 18. but how frequently is it seen, that wicked men breed their children vainly and wickedly; so that as it's said of Abijam, 1 Kings 15. 3. He walked in all the sins of his father, which he had done before him; and so the curse is entail'd from generation to generation. To escape this Curse, is a choice Providence.