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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.
(2.) What a special Mercy was it to us, to have the excrescencies of corruption nipped in the bud by their pious and careful discipline? We now understand, what a critical and dangerous season Youth is, the wonderful proclivity of that Age to every thing that is evil. Why else are they called Youthful lusts? 2 Tim. 2. 22. When David asketh, Wherewith shall a young man cleanse his way? it's plainly enough implied in the very Question, that the way he takes lieth through the pollutions of the world in his youth, Psal. 119. 9. When you find a David praying, that God would not remember the sins of his youth, Psal. 25. 7. and a Job bitterly complaining, that God ⟨p. 51⟩made him to possess the sins of his youth, Job 13. 26. Sure, you cannot but reflect, with a very thankful heart, upon those happy means, by which the corruption of your nature was happily prevented, or restrained in your Youth.
(2.) What a special Mercy was it to us, to have the excrescencies of corruption nipt in the bud by their pious and careful discipline? We now understand, what a critical and dangerous season Youth is, the wonderful proclivity of that Age to every thing that is evil. Why else are they called Youthful lusts? 2 Tim. 2. 22. When David asketh, Wherewith shall a young man cleanse his way? it's plainly enough implyed in the very Question, that the way he takes lieth through the pollutions of the world in his youth, Psal. 119. 9. When you find a David praying, that God would not remember the sins of his youth, Psal. 25. 7. and a Job bitterly complaining, that God ⟨p. 51⟩made him to possess the sins of his youth,