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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.
It is the great support and solace of the Saints in all the distresses that befall them here, that there is a Wise Spirit sitting in all the wheels of motion, and governing the most eccentrical Creatures and their most pernicious designs to blessed and happy issues. And indeed it were not worth while to live in a world [Greek or Hebrew] devoid of God and Providence.
It is the great support and solace of the Saints in all the distresses that befall them here, that there is a Wise Spirit sitting in all the wheels of motion, and governing the most excentrical Creatures and their most pernicious designs to blessed and happy issues. And indeed it were not worth while to live in a world 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 devoid of God and Providence.
How deeply we are concerned in this matter, will appear by that great Instance, which this Psalm presents us with.
It was composed (as the Title notes) by David prayer-wise, when he hid himself from Saul in the Cave: And is inscribed with a double Title, Altaschith Michtam of David. Altaschith refers to the scope, and Michtam to the dignity of the subject matter.