Divine Conduct, or The Mystery of Providence

The dropping of some grave and weighty word accidentally in the presence of vain carnal persons, the death of an Husband, Wife or Child, a fit of sickness, with a thousand other such like occasions, have been thus improved by Providence to the Conversion of souls.

And no less remarkable and wonderful are the designs of Providence in ordering the removes, ⟨p. 66⟩and governing the motions of Ministers, from place to place in order unto the Conversion of souls. Thus oftentimes it carries them to places where they intended not to go; God having (unknown to them) some Elect Vessels there, who must be Called by the Gospel.

And no less remarkable and wonderful are the designs of Providence in ordering the removes, ⟨p. 66⟩and governing the motJons of Ministers, from place to place in order unto the Conversion of souls. Thus oftentimes it carries them to places where they intended not to go; God having (unknown to them) some Elect Vessels there, who must be Called by the Gospel.

Thus Paul and Timothy (a sweet and lovely pair) when they were travelling through Phrygia and Galatia, were forbid to preach the Word in Asia, to which probably their minds inclined, Acts 16. 6. and when they essayed to go into Bithynia, the Spirit suffered them not, Ver. 7. But a man of Macedonia (i. e. an Angel in the shape or habit of a man of that Country) appeared to Paul in a Vision, and prayed him, saying, Come over into Macedonia, and help us, Ver. 9. and there did God open the heart of LydJa.