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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.
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.
(1.) Ascribe to God the glory of all those §1Providential works which yield you comfort. You see a wise, directing, governing Providence, which hath disposed and ordered all things beyond your own projections and designs. The way of man is not in himself, nor is it in him that walketh to direct his own steps, Jer. 10. 23. Not what you projected, but what an higher counsel than yours determined, is come to pass. Good Jacob when God had made him the Father of a Family, admired God in the mercy, Gen. 32. 10. With my staff (said he) I passed over this Jordan, and now I am become two bands. And how doth this mercy humble and melt him? I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies, and of all the […], which thou hast showed unto thy servant.
(1.) Ascribe to God the glory of all those