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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.
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 minu•est Circumstances about this work. Thus you find in Acts 8. 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, &c. the Eunuch at that very instant when he was reading the Prophet Isaiah, hath an Interpreter, one among a thousand, that joins his Chariot, just as his mind was by a fit occasion prepared to receive the first light of the knowledge of Christ.
The wonderful strangeness and unaccountableness of this work of Providence, in casting us into the way, and ordering the occasions, yea, the minu•est Circumstances about this work. Thus you find in Acts 8. 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, &c. the Eunuch at that very instant when he was reading the Prophet Esay, hath an Interpreter, one among a thousand, that joins his CharJot, just as his mind was by a fit occasion prepared to receive the first light of the knowledge of Christ.