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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 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.
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 dayes; for did he so, a thousand mischiefs in that moment woul• rush in upon him, and ruine him.
Doth not the tenderness of his Providence speak his esteem of us? Isa. 66. 13. as one whom his Mother comforteth, so will I comfort you. He comforts his (viz. by refreshing Providences) a• an indulgent Mother her tender Child. So Isa▪ ⟨p. 121⟩31. 5. As birds flying, viz. to their nests, when their young are in danger, so he defends his. No [Greek or Hebrew] tenderness in the Creature can shadow forth the tender bowels of the Creator.
Doth not the tenderness of his Providenc speak his esteem of us?