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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 scattering of Ministers and Christians by Persecution from Cities and Towns, into the ignorant and barbarous parts of the Country, hath been the way of Providence, to find out, and bring home some lost sheep that were found there, to Jesus Christ, Acts 8. 1. 4. The like signal Event hath since followed upon the like scattering of godly Ministers, whereof are many […]
The scattering of Ministers and ChristJans by Persecution from CitJes and Towns, into the ignorant and barbarous parts of the Countrey, hath been the way of Providence, to find out, and bring home some lost sheep that were found there, to Jesus Christ, Acts 8. 1. 4. The like signal Event hath since followed upon the like scattering of godly Ministers, whereof are many 〈…〉
A. Servant running away from his Master, (likely upon no other design but to live an idle life) yet falling into such places and companies, as Providence ordered (in a design to him unknown) hath thereby been brought to be the servant of Christ. This was the very case of Onesimus, who run away from his Master Philemon, to Rome; where by a strange Providence (possibly a mere curiosity to see the Prisoners) he there falls into Paul's hands, who begat him to Christ in his bonds, Philemon, Ver. 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16.
A. Servant running away from his Master, (likely upon no other design but to live an idle life) yet falling into such places and companies, as Providence ordered (in a design to him unknown) hath thereby been brought to be the servant of Christ. This was the very case of Onesimus, who run away from his Master Philemon, to Rome; where by a strange Providence (possibly a meer curiosity to see the Prisoners) he there falls into Paul's hands, who begat him to Christ in his bonds, Philemon, Ver. 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16.