A39659:210
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.
(5.) If the season of their youth be neglected, how little probability is there of any good fruit afterwards? that is the Moulding age, Prov. 22. 6. How few are converted in old age? A twig is brought to any form, but grown limbs will not bow.
(6.) You are instrumental causes of all their spiritual misery; and that (1.) By generation, (2.) Imitation, they lye spiritually dead of the Plague which you brought home among them, Psal. 51. 5. Behold, I was shapen in iniquity, and in sin did my Mother conceive (or warm) me.
(6.) You are instrumental causes of all their spiritual misery; and that (1.) By generatJon, (2.) ImitatJon, they lye spiritually dead of the Plague which you brought home among them, Psal. 51. 5. Behold, I was shapen in iniquity, and in sin did my Mother conceive (or warm) me.
(7.) There's none in the World so likely as you▪ to be Instruments of their Eternal good. You have peculiar advantages that none other hath; as (1.) The interest you have in their affections. (2.) Your opportunities to instil the knowledge of Christ into them, being daily with them, Deut. 6. 7. (3.) Your knowledge of their tempers: if therefore you neglect, who shall help them?