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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.) How many are there, who never enjoy the comfortable fruits of Marriage? but are denied the sight, at least, the enjoyment of Children, Jer. 22. 30. Thus saith the Lord, write this man Childless, &c. or if they have Children, yet cannot enjoy them, Hosea 9. 12. Though they bring up Children, yet will I bereave them, that there shall not be a man left; who only bear for the grave, and have their expectations raised for a greater affliction to themselves.
(2.) How many are there, who never enjoy the comfortable fruits of Marriage? but are denyed the sight, at least, the enjoyment of Children, Jer. 22. 30. Thus saith the Lord, write this man Childless, &c. or if they have Children, yet cannot enjoy them, Hosea 9. 12. Though they bring up Children, yet will I bereave them, that there shall not be a man left; who only bear for the grave, and have their expectations raised for a greater affliction to themselves.
(3.) And it is no rare or unusual thing to see Children and near Relations the greatest Instruments of affliction to their Parents and Friends: so that after all their other sorrows ⟨p. 89⟩and troubles in the World, nearest Relations bring up the rear of sorrows (as One speaks) and prove greater griefs than any other.1 O how many Parents have complained with the Tree in the Fable, that their very hearts have been rived asunder with those Wedges that were cut out of their own bodies? What a grief was Esau to Isaac and Rabecka? Gen. 26. 34, 35