Divine Conduct, or The Mystery of Providence

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.

Thus Paul and Timothy (a sweet and lovely pair) when they were travelling through PhrygJa and GalatJa, were forbid to preach the Word in AsJa, to which probably their minds inclined, Acts 16. 6. and when they essayed to go into BythinJa, the Spirit suffered them not, Ver. 7. But a man of MacedonJa (i. e. an Angel in the shape or habit of a man of that Countrey) 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.

I knew a pious Minister now with God, who falling in his Study upon a very rousing subject, intended for his own Congregation, was strongly moved, when he had finished it, to go to a rude, vile, profane people, about five miles off, and first preach it to them; after many wrestlings with himself, not being willing to quench any motion that might be supposed to come from the Spirit of God, he obeyed, and went to this people, who had then no Minister of their own, and few durst come among them. And there did the Lord, beyond all expectation, open a door, and several profane ones received Christ in that place, and engaged this Minister to a Weekly Lecture among them, in which many souls were won to […].

I knew a pious Minister now with God, who falling in his Study upon a very rouzing subject, intended for his own Congregation, was strongly moved, when he had finished it, to go to a rude, vile, prophane people, about five miles off, and first preach it to them; after many wrestlings with himself, not being willing to quench any motion that might be supposed to come from the Spirit of God, he obeyed, and went to this people, who had then no Minister of their own, and few durst come among them. And there did the Lord, beyond all expectation, open a door, and several prophane ones received Christ in that place, and engaged this Minister to a Weekly Lecture among them, in which many souls were won to .