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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.
Yea, not only the reading of a Book, or hearing a Minister, but (which is most remarkable) the very mistake or forgetfulness of a Minister,1 hath been improved by Providence for this end and purpose. Augustine once preaching to his Congregation, forgot the Argument which first he proposed, and fell upon the Error of the Manichees beside his first intention: by which discourse, he converted one Firmus his Auditor; who fell down at his feet weeping, and confessing he had lived a Manichee many years. Another I knew, who going to preach, took up another Bible than that he designed, in which, not only missing his No•es, but the Chapter also in which his Text lay, was put to some loss thereby: but after a short pause, he resolved to speak to any other Scripture that might be presented to him, and accordingly read that Text, 2 Pet. 3. 9. The Lord is not slack concerning his Promise, &c. And though he had nothing prepared; yet the Lord helped him to speak both methodically and pertinently from it: by which discourse, a gracious change was wrought upon one in the Congregation, who hath since given good Evidence of a sound Conversion, and acknowledged this Sermon to be the first and only Means thereof.
Yea, not only the reading of a Book, or hearing a Minister, but (which is most remarkable) the very mistake or forgetfulness of a Minister,1 hath been improv'd by Providence for this end and purpose. Augustine once preaching to his Congregation, forgot the Argument which first he propos'd, and fell upon the Error of the Manichees beside his first intention: by which discourse, he converted one Firmus his Auditor; who fell down at his feet weeping, and confessing he had lived a Manichee many years. Another I knew, who going to preach, took up another Bible than that he design'd, in which, not only missing his No•es, but the Chapter also in which his Text lay, was put to some loss thereby: but after a short pause, he resolv'd to speak to any other Scripture that might be presented to him, and accordingly read that Text, 2 Pet. 3. 9