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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.
Mr. Firmin in his Real Christian, pag. 97, 98. tells us of one, who had lived many years in a Town where Christ had been as clearly, and as long preached, as in any Town in England. This man when he was about seventy six years of age, went to visit a sick Neighbour. A Christian friend of mine (saith mine Author) came to see him also, and finding this old man there; whom he judged, to be one that lived upon his own stock: Civility, good Works, &c. he purposely fell into that discourse, to show how many persons lived upon their duties, but never came to Christ. The old man sitting by the bed side, heard him; and God was pleased to convince him, that he was such a person, who had lived upon himself without Christ to that day; and would say afterwards, had I dyed before threescore and sixteen, I had perished, for I knew not Christ.
Mr. Firmin in his Real ChristJan, pag. 97, 98. tells us of one, who had liv'd many years in a Town where Christ had been as clearly, and as long preached, as in any Town in England. This man when he was about seventy six years of age, went to visit a sick Neighbour. A Christian friend of mine (saith mine Author) came to see him also, and finding this old man there; whom he judged, to be one that lived upon his own stock: Civility, good Works, &c. he purposely fell into that discourse, to shew how many persons lived upon their duties, but never came to Christ. The old man sitting by the bed side, heard him; and God was pleased to convince him, that he was such a person, who had lived upon himself without Christ to that day; and would say afterwards, had I dyed before threescore and sixteen, I had perisht, for I knew not Christ.
The committing of a godly man to Prison, hath been the method of Providence, to save the soul of a poor Keeper. So Paul, Acts 16. 27. was made a Prisoner, to make his Keeper a spiritual Free-man. The like success had Dr. Barnes in Queen Mary's days, who afterwards celebrated the Lords Supper in Prison with his converted Keeper.