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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.
And you Children, especially you that sprang from religious Parents, I beseech you, obey their Counsels; and tread in the steps of their pious Examples. To press this, I offer these Consideration.
(1.) Your disobedience to them, is a resisting of Gods Authority, Ephes. 6. 1. Children, obey your Parents in the Lord: there's the Command: your rebellion therefore runs higher than you think. It is not Man, but God that you disobey; and for your disobedience God will punish you. It may be, their tenderness will not suffer them, or you are grown beyond their correction: all they can do, is to complain to God; and if so, he will handle you more severely than they could do.
(2.) Your Sin is greater than the Sin of young Heathens and Infidels; and so will your Account be also. O better (if a wicked Child) that thou hadst been the off-spring of Salvage Indians, nay, of Beasts, than of such Parents. So many Counsels disobeyed, Hopes and Prayers frustrated, will turn to sad aggravations.
(2.) Your Sin is greater than the Sin of young Heathens and Infidels; and so will your Account be also. O better (if a wicked Child) that thou hadst been the off-spring of Salvage IndJans, nay, of Beasts, than of such Parents. So many Counsels disobeyed, Hopes and Prayers frustrated, will turn to sad aggravations.