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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.
The same we may observe in Children, the fruit of marriage, 1 Sam. 1. 20. Luke 1. 13, 14. Now the Providence of God may be divers ways displayed for the engaging of our hearts in love to the God of our mercies.
The same we may observe in Children, the fruit of marriage, 1 Sam. 1. 20. Luke 1. 13, 14. Now the Providence of God may be divers wayes displayed for the engaging of our hearts in love to the God of our mercies.
(1.) There is very much of Providence seen in appointing the Parties each for other. In this, the Lord goes oftentimes beyond our thoughts and projections; yea, and oftentimes crosses mens desires and designs to their great advantage. Not what they fancy; but what his infinite wisdom judges best, and most beneficial for them takes place. Hence it is, that probabilities are so often dashed; and things remote and utterly improbable are brought about, in very strange and unaccountable methods of Providence.
(2.) There is much of Providence seen in the harmony and agreeableness of tempers and dispositions; from whence a very great part of the tranquillity and comforts of our lives results: or at least, though natural tempers and educations did not so much harmonize before, yet they do so after they come under the Ordinance of God, Gen. 2. 24. They two shall be one flesh, not one only in respect of Gods institution, but one in respect of love and affection, that those who so lately were mere strangers to each other, are now endeared to a degree beyond the nearest relations in blood. Ubi supra, For this cause shall a man leave Father and Mother, and shall cleave to his Wife, and they two shall be one flesh.