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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.
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The next great advantage and mercy the Saints receive from the hand of Providence,1 is in their preservation from the snares, and temptations of sin, by its preventing care over them. That Providence wards off many a deadly stroke of Temptation, and puts by many a mortal thrust which Satan makes at our souls, is a truth as manifest as the light that shineth. This is included in that promise, 1 Cor. 10. 13. God will with the temptation make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it. Providence gives an out-let for the souls escape, when it is shut up into the ⟨p. 97⟩dangerous straits of Temptation. There are two eminent ways whereby the force and efficacy of temptation is broken in believers. One is by the operation of internal grace, Gal. 5. 17. The Spirit lusteth against the flesh; so that ye cannot do the things that ye would (i. e.) Sanctification gives sin a miscarrying womb after it hath conceived in the soul. The other way, is by the external working of Providence; and of this I am here engaged to speak.
THe next great advantage and mercy the Saints receive from the hand of Providence,1 is in their preservatJon from the snares, and temptatJons of sin, by its preventing care over them. That Providence wards off many a deadly stroke of Temptation, and puts by many a mortal thrust which Satan makes at our souls, is a truth as manifest as the light that shineth. This is included in that promise, 1 Cor. 10. 13. God will with the temptatJon make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it. Providence gives an out-let for the souls escape, when it is shut up into the