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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.
Well then, if Providence hath so disposed of you all, that you can eat your own bread, and so advantageously directed some of you to employments, that afford not only necessaries for ⟨p. 83⟩your selves and families, but an overplus for works of mercy to others, and all this brought about for you in a way you did not project; let God be owned, and honoured in this Providence. Will you not henceforth call him, My Father, the Guide of my youth? as it is Jer. 3. 4. Surely, it was the Lord that guided you to settle as you did in those days of your youth: You reap at this day, and may to your last day, the fruits of those early Providences in your youth.
Well then, if Providence hath so disposed of you all, that you can eat your own bread, and so advantagiously directed some of you to imployments, that afford not only necessaries for ⟨p. 83⟩your selves and families, but an overplus for works of mercy to others, and all this brought about for you in a way you did not project; let God be owned, and honoured in this Providence. Will you not henceforth call him, My Father, the Guide of my youth? as it is Jer. 3. 4. Surely, it was the Lord that guided you to setle as you did in those dayes of your youth: You reap at this day, and may to your last day, the fruits of those early Providences in your youth.
Now see that you walk answerably to the obligations of Providence in this particular; and see to it in the fear of God, that you abuse not any of those things to his dishonour, which he hath wrought for your comfort. To prevent which, I will here drop a few needful Cautions, and shut up this particular.