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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.) And how many deadly dangers hath his hand rescued some of you from, in those years of confusion and public calamity, when the Sword was bathed in blood, and made horrid slaughter, when it may be, your lives were often given you for a prey? This David put a special remark upon, Psal. 140. 7. O God the Lord, the strength of my salvation; thou hast covered my head in the day of Battle.
(2.) And how many deadly dangers hath his hand rescued some of you from, in those years of confusion and publick calamity, when the Sword was bathed in blood, and made horrid slaughter, when it may be, your lives were often given you for a prey? This David put a special remarque upon, Psal. 140. 7. O God the Lord, the strength of my salvatJon; thou hast covered my head in the day of Battel.
Beza being in France in the first Civil War, and there tossed up and down for two and twenty months, recorded six hundred deliverances from dangers in that space, for which he solemnly gave God thanks in his last Testament. If the Sword destroyed you not, it was because God did not give it a Commission so to do.
(3.) Many of you have seen wonders of salvation upon the deeps, where the hand of God hath been signally stretched forth for your rescue and deliverance. This is elegantly expressed in Psal• 107. 23, 24▪ 25, 26, 27. (which I have* elsewhere opened at large) concerning which, you may say in a proper sense, what the Psalmist doth metaphorically,