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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.
(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, Ezek. 1. 20. and so they move together by consent. Now, one great part of the Spirit's internal work, being to destroy sin in the people of God; see how conformable to his design external Providences are steered and ordered in the following particulars.
(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, Ezek. 1. 20. and so they move together by consent. Now, one great part of the Spirit's internal work, being to destroy sin in the people of God; see how conformable to his design external Providences are steer'd and order'd in the following particulars.
(1.) There is in all the regenerate a strong propension and inclination to sin, and in that lies a principal part of the power of sin. Of this Paul sadly complains, Rom. 7. 23