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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 yet where the Circumstances as well as Substance are clear to a man: when we can call to remembrance, the Time when, the Place where, the Instrument by whom that work was wrought, it must needs be exceeding sweet: and they cannot but yield a fresh delight to the soul every time they are reflected upon.
There are many of the following occasions, which it may be, we took for stragglers when they first befell us: but they proved scouts sent out from the main body of Providence, which they make way for.
There are many of the following occasions, which it may be, we took for straglers when they first befell us: but they proved scouts sent out from the main body of Providence, which they make way for.
Now there be divers things in those Providences, that are versant about this work, which ⟨p. 60⟩are exceeding sweet, and taking; as namely,
The wonderful strangeness and unaccountableness of this work of Providence, in casting us into the way, and ordering the occasions, yea, the minuest Circumstances about this work. Thus you find in