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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.
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 yet own it as a special Providence, that you had no hinderance; or, if you had opposition, yet
- 1Sol.
(2.) Admire the Grace of God, in plucking you out by a wonderful distinguishing hand of mercy from among them, and keeping alive the languishing sparks of Grace amidst the floods of opposition.
(3.) And learn from hence, if God give you a posterity of your own, to be so much the more strict and careful of relational duties, by how much you have sensibly felt the want of it in your selves