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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.
The design and aim of these afflictive Providences, is to purge and cleanse them from that pollution into which temptations have plunged them, Isa. 27. 9. By this shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged, and this is all the fruit, to take away his sin. To the same purpose is that place, Psal. 119. 67. Before I was afflicted I went astray, but now have I kept thy word. These afflictions have ⟨p. 112⟩the same use and end to our souls, that frosty weather hath upon those clothes that are laid a bleaching; they alter the hue, and make it whiter, which seems to be the allusion in those words, Dan. 11. 35. And some of them of understanding shall fall to try them, and to purge, and to make them white.
And here it may be queried, 1Upon what account afflictions are said to purge away the iniquities of the Saints. Is it not unwarrantable, and very dishonourable to Christ, to attribute that to affliction, which is the peculiar honour of his blood?
And here it may be querJed, 1Upon what account afflictions are said to purge away the iniquities of the Saints. Is it not unwarrantable, and very dishonourable to Christ, to attribute that to affliction, which is the peculiar honour of his blood?
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