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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.
Now there are two Means or Instruments employed in this work. The Spirit, who effects it internally, Rom. 8. 13. And Providence, which assists it externally. The Spirit indeed is the principal Agent, upon whose operation, the success of this work depends; and all the Providences in the world can never effect it without him. ⟨p. 109⟩But these are secondary and subordinate means, which by the blessing of the Spirit upon them, have a great stroke in the work. How they are so serviceable to this end and purpose, I shall open in the following account.
Now there are two Means or Instruments imployed in this work. The Spirit, who effects it internally, Rom. 8. 13. And Providence, which assists it externally. The Spirit indeed is the principal Agent, upon whose operation, the success of this work depends; and all the Providences in the world can never effect it without him. ⟨p. 109⟩But these are secondary and subordinate means, which by the blessing of the Spirit upon them, have a great stroke in the work. How they are so serviceable to this end and purpose, I shall open in the following account.
(1.) More generally. The most wise God orders the dispensations of Providence in a blessed subordination to the work of his Spirit. There is a sweet harmony betwixt them in their distinct workings. They all meet in that one blessed issue which God hath by the counsel of his Will directed them to, Eph. 1. 11. Rom. 8. 28. Hence it is, that the Spirit is said to be in, and order the motions of the wheels of Providence,