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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.
(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.
(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 institutJon, but one in respect of love and affectJon, that those who so lately were meer strangers to each other, are now endeared to a degree beyond the nearest relations in blood. Vbi supra, For this cause shall a man leave Father and Mother, and shall cleave to his Wife, and they two shall be one flesh.
(3.) But especially, Providence is remarkable, in making one instrumental to the eternal good of the other, I Cor. 7. 16. How knowest thou, O Wife, but thou mayest save thy Husband? or ⟨image 54⟩how knowest thou, O Man, whether thou shalt save thy Wife? Hence is that grave Exhortation to the Wives of unbelieving Husbands,