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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.
So Jonah, when God raised up a Gourd for him to shelter him from the Sun, how excessively was he taken with it, and was exceedingly glad of it?
But will God suffer things to lye thus? Shall the Creature purloin, and draw away our affections from him? No, this is our corruption, and God will purge it. And to this end he sends forth Providence to smite those Creatures, on which our affections are either inordinately or excessively let out, or else to turn them into rods, and smite us by them.
But will God suffer things to lye thus? Shall the Creature pu••oin, and draw away our affections from him? No, this is our corruption, and God will purge it. And to this end he sends forth Providence to smite those Creatures, on which our affections are either inordinately or excessively let out, or else to turn them into rods, and smite us by them.
•s Hezekiah too much pu••ed up with his full Exchequer? Why, those very Babylonians to whom he boasted of it, shall empty it, and make a prey of it, Isa. 39. 6.
•s HezekJah too much pu••ed up with his full Exchequer? Why, those very BabylonJans to whom he boasted of it, shall empty it, and make a prey of it, Isa. 39. 6.