Divine Conduct, or The Mystery of Providence

And now suffer me to expostulate a little with thy soul Reader, hast thou been duly sensible of thy obligation to Providence, for this inestimable favour? O what hath it done for thee! there are divers kinds of mercies conveyed to men by the hand of Providence, but none like this: in all the Treasury of its benefits, none is found like this. Did it cast thee into the way of Conversion, and order the means and occasions of it for thee, when thou little thoughtest of any such thing? How dear and sweet, should the remembrance of it be to thy soul! Methinks it should astonish and melt you every time you reflect upon it. Such Mercies should never grow stale, or look like common things to you: for do but seriously consider the following particulars.

ANd now suffer me to expostulate a little with thy soul Reader, hast thou been duly sensible of thy obligation to Providence, for this inestimable favour? O what hath it done for thee! there are divers kinds of mercies conveyed to men by the hand of Providence, but none like this: in all the Treasury of its benefits, none is found like this. Did it cast thee into the way of Conversion, and order the means and occasions of it for thee, when thou little thoughtest of any such thing? How dear and sweet, should the remembrance of it be to thy soul! Methinks it should astonish and melt you every time you reflect upon it. Such Mercies should never grow stale, or look like common things to you: for do but seriously consider the following particulars.

How surprising the mercy was, which it performed for you in that day. Providence had a design upon you, for your eternal good, which you understood not. The time of mercy was now fully come; the Decree was now ready to bring forth that mercy, with which it had gone big from Eternity, and its gracious design must be executed by the hand of Providence, so far as concerned the external means and instruments: and how aptly did it cause all things to fall in with that design, though you knew not the meaning of it? Look over all the before mentioned Examples, and you shall see the blessed work of Conversion begun upon those souls, when they ⟨p. 75⟩