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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.
(3.) And how many be there, who are more sober, and yet hate the least appearances of Godliness in their Children? who instead of cherishing, do all that they can to break bruised reeds, and quench smoking •lax, to stifle and strangle the first appearances, and offers they make towards Christ? Who had rather accompany them to their graves, than to Christ, doing all that in them lies, Herod like, to kill Christ in the Cradle? Ah Sirs, ye little know, what a mercy ye do or have enjoyed in Godly Parents, and what a good Lot Providence cast for you in this Concernment of your bodies and souls.
(3.) And how many be there, who are more sober, and yet hate the least appearances of Godliness in their Children? who instead of cherishing, do all that they can to break bruised reeds, and quench smoaking •lax, to stifle and strangle the first appearances, and offers they make towards Christ? Who had rather accompany them to their graves, than to Christ, doing all that in them lyes, Herod like, to kill Christ in the Cradle? Ah Sirs, ye little know, what a mercy ye do or have enjoyed in Godly Parents, and what a good Lot Providence cast for you in this Concernment of your bodies and souls.
If any shall say, This was not their case, 1they had little help Heaven-ward from their Parents: To such I shall only reply three things.
- 1Object.
(1.) If you had little furtherance,1