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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.
(1.) It's like,1 Wisdom of Providence foresaw this to be the most suitable and proper Employment for you; and if you had more ease and rest, you might have more temptations than now you have: the strength and time which is now taken up in your daily labours, wherein you serve God, might otherwayes have been spent upon such lusts wherein you might have served the Devil.
(1.) It's like,1 Wisdom of Providence foresaw this to be the most suitable and proper Imployment for you; and if you had more ease and rest, you might have more temptations than now you have: the strength and time which is now taken up in your daily labours, wherein you serve God, might otherwayes have been spent upon such lusts wherein you might have served the Devil.
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(2.) Hereby it may be, your health is the better preserved, and natural refreshments made the sweeter to you, Eccle•. 5. 12. The sleep of a labouring man is sweet to him, whether he eat little or much: but the abundance of the rich, will not suffer him to sleep.
(3.) And as to the service of God, if your hearts be spiritual, you may enjoy much Communion with God in your very Employments, and you have some intervals and respites for that purpose. ⟨p. 82⟩