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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.
But if it be not only lawful in it self, but suited to your genius and strength, there is a double mercy in it. Some poor Creatures are engaged in Callings, that eat up their time and strength, and make their lives very uncomfortable to them: they have not only spending and wasting Employments in the world; but such as allow them little or no time for their general Calling: and yet all this doth but keep them and theirs alive. Oh therefore, if God have •itted you with an honest Employment, wherein you have Jess toil than others, and more time for Heavenly Exercises, ascribe this benefit to the special care of Providence for you.
But if it be not only lawful in it self, but suited to your genJus and strength, there is a double mercy in it. Some poor Creatures are engaged in Callings, that eat up their time and strength, and make their lives very uncomfortable to them: they have not only spending and wasting Imployments in the world; but such as allow them little or no time for their general Calling: and yet all this doth but keep them and theirs alive. Oh therefore, if God have •itted you with an honest Imployment, wherein you have Iess toil than others, and more time for Heavenly Exercises, ascribe this benefit to the special care of Providence for you.
In settling you in such an Employment and Calling §3in the world, as possibly neither your selves nor Parents could ever expect you should arrive to. There are among us such persons, as on this account are signally obliged to Divine Providence. God hath put them into such a way, as neither they nor their Parents ever projected. For, look as the Flower-de-luce in the Compass, turns now this way, then that way, and never ceases moving, till it settle to the North point; just so it is in our settlement in the world. A Child is now designed for this, then for that, but at last settles in that way of Employment which Providence designed him to. How strangely are things wheeled about by Providence! not what we, or our Parents, but what God designed shall take place. Amos was very meanly employed at