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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.
(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. What a scourge were Absalom and Amnon to David?
- 1Mr. T. C. in his Isa•gog•
Well then, if God have set the solitary in Families, as it is Psal. 68. 6. built an house for the desolate, given you comfortable relations, which are springs of daily comfort and refreshment to you, you are upon many accounts engaged to walk answerably to these gracious Providences. And that you may understand wherein that decorum and agreeable comportment with these Providences consists, take up the sense of your duty in these brief hints.
Well then, if God have set the solitary in FamilJes, as it is Psal. 68. 6. built an house for the desolate, given you comfortable relations, which are springs of daily comfort and refreshment to you, you are upon many accounts engaged to walk answerably to these gracious Providences. And that you may understand wherein that decorum and agreeable comportment with these Providences consists, take up the sense of your duty in these brief hints.