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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.
O Reader, if thy heart be spiritual and well stocked with experience, if thou hast recorded the ⟨image 10⟩ways of Providence towards thee, and wilt but allow thy self time to reflect upon them; what a life of pleasure mayest thou live! What an Heaven upon Earth doth this way lead thee into! I will not here tell thee, what I have met in this path, lest it should seem to savour of too much Vanity; non est religJo ubi omnJa patent. There are some delights and enjoyments in the Christian life, which are and must be enclosed. But Try it thy self, Taste and See, and thou wilt need no other inducement; thine own Experience will be the most powerful Oratory to persuade thee to the study and search of Providence.
O Reader, if thy heart be spiritual and well stockt with experience, if thou hast recorded the ⟨image 10⟩wayes of Providence towards thee, and wilt but allow thy self time to reflect upon them; what a life of pleasure maist thou live! What an Heaven upon Earth doth this way lead thee into! I will not here tell thee, what I have met in this path, lest it should seem to savour of too much Vanity; non est religJo ubi omnJa patent. There are some delights and enjoyments in the Christian life, which are and must be enclosed. But Try it thy self, Taste and See, and thou wilt need no other inducement; thine own Experi•nce will be the most powerful Oratory to perswade thee to the study and search of Providence.
Histories are usually read with delight: when once the fancy is catched, a man knows not how to disengage himself from it. I am greatly mistaken, if the History of our own lives, if it were well drawn up, and distinctly perused, would not be the pleasantest History that ever we read in our lives.
Histories are usually read with delight: when once the fancy is catcht, a man knows not how to disengage himself from it. I am greatly mistaken, if the History of our own lives, if it were well drawn up, and distinctly perused, would not be the pleasantest History that ever we read in our lives.