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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.
The First Direction.
Labour to get as full and through recognitions of the Providences of God about you from first to last, as you are able. O sill your hearts with the thoughts of him and his ways. If a single act of Providence be so ravishing and transporting, what would many such be, if they were presented together ⟨p. 128⟩to the view of the soul? If one Star be so beautiful to behold, what is a Constellation? Let your reflections therefore upon the acts and workings of Providence for you, be full extensively and intensively.
LAbour to get as full and through recognitJons of the Providences of God about you from first to last, as you are able. O sill your hearts with the thoughts of him and his wayes. If a single act of Providence be so ravishing and transporting, what would many such be, if they were presented together ⟨p. 128⟩to the view of the soul? If one Star be so beautiful to behold, what is a ConstellatJon? Let your reflections therefore upon the acts and workings of Providence for you, be full extensively and intensively.
(1.) Let them be as extensively full as may be▪ Search backward into all the performances of Providence throughout your lives. So did Asaph in