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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.
Doth not the gift of his only Son out of his bosom speak this truth, That God makes great account of this vile thing Man? Never was man so magnified before. If David could say, Psal. 8. •. When I consider the Heavens the work of thy hands, the Moon and Stars which thou hast ordained, Lord, what is man? How much more may we say? when we consider thy Son, that lay in thy bosom, his infinite excellency, and unspeakable dearness to thee; Lord, what is man, that such a Christ should be delivered to death for him! for him, and not for fallen Angels! Heb. 2. 16. for him when in a state of enmity with God! Rom. 5. 8.
Doth not the gift of his only Son out of his bosome speak this truth, That God makes great account of this vile thing Man? Never was man so magnified before. If David could say, Psal. 8. •. When I consider the Heavens the work of thy hands, the Moon and Stars which thou hast ordained, Lord, what is man? How much more may we say? when we consider thy Son, that lay in thy bosome, his infinite excellency, and unspeakable dearness to thee; Lord, what is man, that such a Christ should be delivered to death for him! for him, and not for fallen Angels! Heb. 2. 16. for him when in a state of enmity with God! Rom. 5. 8.
Doth not the assiduity of his Providential care for us, speak his esteem of us? Isa. 27. 3. […] any hurt it, I will keep it night and day. H withdraweth not his eye from the righteous, Job 36. 7. no, not a moment all their days; for did he so, a thousand mischiefs in that moment woul rush in upon him, and ruin him.