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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.
But yet, this hinders not, but that a sanctified affliction, may in the efficacy and virtue of Christs blood, produce such blessed effects upon the soul. Though a Cross without a Christ, never did any man good, yet thousands have been beholden to the Cross, as it hath wrought in the virtue of his death for their good. And this is the case of those souls that this discourse is concerned about.
But yet, this hinders not, but that a sancti•ied affliction, may in the efficacy and vertue of Christs blood, produce such blessed effects upon the soul. Though a Cross without a Christ, never did any man good, yet thousands have been beholden to the Cross, as it hath wrought in the vertue of his death for their good. And this is the case of those souls that this discourse is concerned about.
(3.) We find the best hearts, if God bestow any comfortable enjoyment upon them, too ap• to be over-heated in their affections towards it▪ ⟨p. 113⟩and to be too much taken up with these outward comforts. This also showeth the great power and strength of corruption in the people of God, and must by some means or other be mortified in them.
(3.) We find the best hearts, if God bestow any comfortable enjoyment upon them, too ap• to be over-heated in their affections towards it▪ ⟨p. 113⟩and to be too much taken up with these outward comforts. This also sheweth the great power and strength of corruption in the people of God, and must by some means or other be morti•ied in them.