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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.
So for the Conversion of the Samaritans, it's observed John 4. 4. Christ must needs go that way, (i. e.) it lay just in the road betwixt Judea and Galilee, and at the sixth hour (i. e.) high noon, he rests himself upon Jacob's Well, still seeming to have no other design, but his own refreshment, by sitting and drinking there: but O what a train of blessed Providences follow this, which seemed but an accidental thing! first the Woman of Samaria, and then many more in that City are brought to believe in Christ, as you find Verse 29. and 41.
So for the Conversion of the Samaritans, it's observed John 4. 4. Christ must needs go that way, (i. e.) it lay just in the road betwixt Judea and Galilee, and at the sixth hour (i. e.) high noon, he rests himself upon Jacob's Well, still seeming to have no other design, but his own refreshment, by sitting and drinking there: but O what a train of blessed Providences follow this, which seemed but an accidental thing! first the Woman of SamarJa, and then many more in that City are brought to believe in Christ, as you find Verse 29. and 41.
It is noted by Melchior Adams in the Life of Junius, 1how very an Atheist he was grown in his younger years; but in order to his Conversion to God, first, a wonderful preservation of his life in a public tumult at Lyons in France must make way, which forces from him the acknowledgement of a Deity. Then his Father sends for him home, and with much gentleness persuades him to read the Scriptures; he lights upon the first of John, and with it he sensibly feels a Divine Supernatural Majesty and Power seizing his soul, which brought him over by a complete Conversion to Jesus Christ. Thus, as the Woman of Tekoa told David, doth God devise means to bring back his banished.