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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.) 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⟩Rock. Abigail was a discreet and virtuous W• man, but very unsuitably matched to a churlish Nabal; see 1 Sam. 25. 25. What a temptation to the neglect of a known duty, prevailed upon the renowned Moses, by the means of Zipporah his Wife? Exod. 4. 24, 25. David had his scoffing Michal, 2 Sam. 6. 20. And patient Job no small addition to all his other afflictions, from the Wife of his bosom, who should have been a support to him in the day of his trouble, Job 19. 17.
(1.) Multitudes unequally yoked, to the imbittering 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⟩Rock. Abigail was a discreet and vertuous W• man, but very unsuitably matched to a churlish Nabal; see 1 Sam. 25. 25. What a temptation to the neglect of a known duty, prevail'd upon the renowned Moses, by the means of Zipporah his Wife? Exod. 4. 24, 25. David had his scoffing Michal, 2 Sam. 6. 20. And patient Job no small addition to all his other afflictions, from the Wife of his bosom, who should have been a support to him in the day of his trouble,