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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.
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 Psal. 77. 11, 12. I will remember the works of the Lord: surely I will remember thy wonders of old: I will meditate of all thy works, and talk of thy doings. He laboured to recover and revive the ancient Providences of God, mercies many years past, and suck a fresh sweetness out of them by new reviews of them. Ah Sirs, let me tell you, there is not such a pleasant History for you to read in all the world, as the History of your own lives, if you would but sit down, and record to your selves from the beginning hitherto, what God hath been to you, and done for you; what signal manifestations, and out-breakings of his mercy, faithfulness and love, there have been in all the conditions you have past through: if your hearts do not melt before you have gone half through that History, they are hard hearts indeed. My father, the guide of my youth.