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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.) How God hath charged you with their souls, as well as bodies: and this appears by two sorts of Precepts. (1.) Precepts directly laid upon you, Deut. 6. 6, 7. and Eph. 6. 4. (2.) By Precepts laid on them to obey you, Eph. 6. 1. which plainly implies your duty, as well as expresses theirs.
(3.) What shall comfort you at the parting ⟨p. 55⟩time, if they dye through your neglect in a Christless condition? Oh this is the cutting consideration, My Child is in Hell, and I did nothing to prevent it; I helped him thither. Duty discharged, is the only root of comfort in that day.
(4.) If you neglect to instruct them in the way of Holiness, will the Devil neglect to instruct them in the way of Wickedness? No, no, if you will not teach them to pray, he will to curse, swear and lye. If ground be uncultivated, weeds will spring.