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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.
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, Psal. 124. 1. & 4. If it had not been the Lord who was on our side, then the waters had overwhelmed us, the stream had gone over our soul. To see men that have spent so many years upon the Seas, (where your lives have continually hanged in suspense before you) attain to your years, when you could neither be reckoned among the living nor the dead (as Seamen are not) Oh, what cause have you to adore your great preserver! Many thousands of your Companions are gone down, and you yet here to praise the Lord among the Living. You have bordered nearer to Eternity all you• days than others, and often been in eminent perils upon the Seas, surely such, and so many Salvations call aloud upon you for most thankful acknowledgements.
(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*