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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.) 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.
(3.) It's usual with God, to retaliate mens disobedience to their Parents in kind: Commonly our own Children shall pay us home for it. I have read in a grave Author, of a wicked Wretch that dragged his Father along the house: the Father begged him, not to draw him beyond ⟨p. 57⟩such a place: for, said he, I dragged my Father no farther. O the sad, but just retributions of God!
(3.) It's usual with God, to retaliate mens disobedience to their Parents in kind: Commonly our own Children shall pay us home for it. I have read in a grave Author, of a wicked Wretch that drag'd his Father along the house: the Father begg'd him, not to draw him beyond ⟨p. 57⟩such a place: for, said he, I drag'd my Father no farther. O the sad, but just retributions of God!