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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.
They as sensibly felt the miseries of our souls as of our bodies; and nothing was more desirable to them, than that they might say in the great day, Lord, here am I, and the Children which thou hast given me.
(4.) And was it not a special Favour to us, to have Parents that went before us as Patterns of ⟨p. 52⟩Holiness, and beat the path to Heaven for us by their Examples? Who could say to us, as Phil. 4. 9. What things ye have heard and seen in me, that do; and as 1 Cor. 11. 1. Be ye followers of us, as we are of Christ. The Parents life is the Child's copy. O 'tis no common mercy, to have a fair copy set before us, especially in the moulding age: we saw what they did, as well as heard what they said. It was Abraham's commendation, that he commanded his Children, and his household after him, to keep the way of the Lord. And such mercies some of us have had also.
(4.) And was it not a special Favour to us, to have Parents that went before us as Patterns of ⟨p. 52⟩Holiness, and beat the path to Heaven for us by their Examples? Who could say to us, as Phil. 4. 9. What things ye have heard and seen in me, that do; and as 1 Cor. 11. 1. Be ye followers of us, as we are of Christ. The Parents life is the Childs copy. O 'tis no common mercy, to have a fair copy set before us, especially in the moulding age: we saw what they did, as well as heard what they said. It was Abraham's commendation, that he commanded his Children, and his houshold after him, to keep the way of the Lord. And such mercies some of us have had also.