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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.
Without due observation of the work of Providence, no praise can be rendered to God for any of them. Praise and thanksgiving for mercies depend upon this act of observation of them, and cannot be performed without it. Psalm 107. is spent in narratives of Gods Providential care of men. To his people in straits, Ver. 4, 5, 6. To prisoners in their bonds, Ver. 10, 11, 12. To men that lye languishing upon beds of sickness, Ver. 17, 18, 19. To Seamen upon the stormy Ocean▪ Ver. 23, &c. To men in times of famine, Ver. 33. to Ver. 40. Yea, his Providence is displayed in all those changes that fall out in the world, debasing the high, and exalting the low, Ver. 40, 41. and at every paragraph men are still called upon to praise God for each of these Providences: but Ver. ult. shows you what a necessary ingredient to that duty, observation is. Whos• it wi•e, and will observe these things; even they shall understand• the loving kindness of the Lord. So that of necessity, God must be defrauded of his praise, if this duty be neglected.
Without due observation of the work of Providence, no praise can be rendered to God for any of them. Praise and thanksgiving for mercies depend upon this act of observation of them, and cannot be performed without it. Psalm 107. is spont in narratives of Gods Providential care of men. To his people in straits, Ver. 4, 5, 6. To prisoners in their bonds, Ver. 10, 11, 12. To men that lye languishing upon beds of sickness, Ver. 17, 18, 19. To Seamen upon the stormy Ocean▪ Ver. 23, &c. To men in times of famine, Ver. 33. to Ver. 40. Yea, his Providence is displayed in all those changes that fall out in the world, de•asing the high, and exalting the low, Ver. 40, 41. and at every paragraph men are still called upon to praise God for each of these Providences: but Ver. ult. shews you what a necessary ingredient to that duty, observation is. Whos• it wi•e, and will observe these things; even they shall understand the loving kindness of the Lord. So that of necessity, God must be defrauded of his praise, if this duty be neglected.