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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.
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.
And how strange was that Change (how far soever it went) upon Naaman the Syrian? recorded 2 Kings 5. 1, 2, 3, 4. That the Syrians in their incursion should bring away this girl, (likely her beauty was the inducement,) and shell must be presented to Naaman's Wife, and relate to her the power of God that accompanied the Prophet; though you find in that particular case there had never been an instance given before, Luke 4. 27. Doubtless, the whole of this affair was guided by the signal direction of Providence.
And how strange was that Change (how far soever it went) upon Naaman the SyrJan? recorded