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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.
IN all your Observations of Providence, have a special respect to that Word of God, which is fulfilled and made good to you thereby.
This is a clear truth, that all Providences have relation to the written Word. Thus Solomon in his prayer, acknowledges, that the Promises and Providences of God went along step by step with his Father David all his days; and that his hand (put there for his Providence) had fulfilled whatever his mouth had spoken, • Kings 8. 24. So Joshua in like manner acknowledges, that not one good thing had failed, of all the good things which the Lord had spoken, Jos. 23. 14. He had carefully observed what relation the Works of God had to his Word. He compared them together, and found an exact harmony. And so may you too, if you will compare them as he did.
This is a clear truth, that all Providences have relation to the written Word. Thus Solomon in his prayer, acknowledges, that the Promises and Providences of God went along step by step with his Father David all his dayes; and that his hand (put there for his Providence) had fulfilled whatever his mouth had spoken, • Kings 8. 24. So Joshuah in like manner acknowledges, that not one good thing had failed, of all the good things which the Lord had spoken, Jos. 23. 14. He had carefully observed what relation the Works of God had to his Word. He compared them together, and found an exact harmony. And so may you too, if you will compare them as he did.
This I shall the more insist upon, because it is by some Interpreters supposed to be the very Scope of the Text. For (as was noted in the Explication) they supply and fill the sense with quae promisit, the things which he hath promised; and so read the Text thus, I will cry unto God