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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.
But seeing such a train of blessings, both as to this life, and that to come, follow upon an holy education of Children; I will not dismiss the Point, till I have discharged my duty, in exhorting Parents and Children to their duties.
And first for you that are Parents, or to whom the Education of Children is committed, I beseech you mind, how concerning a duty lies on you: and that I may effectually press it, consider,
(1.) How near the Relation is betwixt you and your Children, and therefore how much you are concerned in their happiness or misery. Consider but the Scripture account of the dearness of such Relations, expressed (1.) By longings for them, as Gen. 15. 2. Gen. 30. 1. and (2.) By our joy when we have them, as Christ expresses it, John. 16. 21. (3.) The high value set on them, Gen. 42. 38. (4.) The sympathy with them in all their troubles, Mark 9. 22. and (5.) By our sorrow at parting, Gen. 37. 35. Now shall all this be to no purpose? For to what purpose do we desire them before we have them, rejoice in them when we have them, value them so highly, sympathize with them so tenderly, grieve for their death so excessively; if in the mean time no care be taken what shall become of them to Eternity?