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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.
(4.) How much of Providence is seen in Children the fruit of Marriage? To have any Posterity in the Earth, and not be left altogether as a dry tree: To have comfort and joy in them, is a special Providence, importing a special mercy to us. To have the breaches made upon our Families repaired, is a Providence to be owned with a thankful heart. When God shall say to a man, as he speaks in another case to the Church, Isa. 49. 20. The Children which thou shalt have after thou hast lost the other, shall say again in thine ears, the place is too strait for me, &c
(4.) How much of Providence is seen in Children the fruit of MarrJage? To have any Posterity in the Earth, and not be left altogether as a dry tree: To have comfort and joy in them, is a special Providence, importing a special mercy to us. To have the breaches made upon our Families repaired, is a Providence to be owned with a thankful heart. When God shall say to a man, as he speaks in another case to the Church, Isa. 49. 20. The Children which thou shalt have after thou hast lost the other, shall say again in thine ears, the place is too strait for me, &c
And these Providences will appear more affectingly sweet and lovely to you, if you but compare its allotments to you, with what it hath allotted to many others in the world. For do but look abroad, and you shall find,
(1.) Multitudes unequally yoked, to the embittering of their lives, whose Relations are clogs and hinderances both in Temporals and Spirituals. Yea, we find an account in Scripture of gracious persons, a great part of whose comfort in this world hath been split upon this ⟨p. 88⟩