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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.
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.
Going to hear a Sermon in jest, hath proved some mens Conversion in earnest. The above named Mr. Firmin in the fore-cited Book, tells us of a notorious drunkard, whom the drunkards called Father, that one day would needs go to hear what Wilson said, out of no other design it seems, but to scoff at that holy man: but in the prayer before Sermon, his heart began to thaw; and when he read his Text, which was John 5. 14. Sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee: he could not contain; and in that Sermon the Lord changed his heart, though so bitter an Enemy, that the Minister on Lecture-days was afraid to go to Church before his shop door. Lo, these are parts of his ways, but how small a portion is known of him?
Going to hear a Sermon in jest, hath proved some mens Conversion in earnest. The above named Mr. Firmin in the fore-cited Book, tells us of anotorious drunkard, whom the drunkards called Father, that one day would needs go to hear what Wilson said, out of no other design it seems, but to scoff at that holy man: but in the prayer before Sermon, his heart began to thaw; and when he read his Text, which was