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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.
Let the Events of Providence speak to this also; ask your own experience, and you shall have a full confirmation of this truth. Did you ever leave the way of simplicity and integrity, and use sinful shifts, to bring about your own designs, and prosper in that way? Certainly God hath cursed all the ways of sin; and whoever finds them to thrive with them, his people shall not. Israel would not rely upon the Lord, but trust in the shadow of Egypt; and what advantage had they by this sinful policy? See Isa. 30. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. David used a great deal of sinful policy to cover his wicked fact; but did it prosper? See 2 Sam. 12. 12. It is an excellent note of Livy, ConsilJa callida, prima specie l•ta, tractata dura, eventu tristJa. Sinful policies in their first appearances, are pleasant and promising, in their management difficult, in their event sad. Some by sinful ways have gotten wealth; but that Scripture hath been verified in their experience, Prov. 10. 2. Treasures of wickedness profit nothing. Either God hath blown upon it by a secret curse, that it hath done them no good, or given them such disquietness in their consciences, that they have been forced to vomit it up, ere they could find peace, Job 11. 13, 14, 15.
Let the Events of Providence speak to this also; ask your own experience, and you shall have a full confirmation of this truth. Did you ever leave the way of simplicity and integrity, and use sinful shifts, to bring about your own designs, and prosper in that way? Certainly God hath cursed all the wayes of sin; and whoever finds them to thrive with them, his people shall not. Israel would not rely upon the Lord, but trust in the shadow of Egypt; and what advantage had they by this sinful policy? See Isa. 30. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. David used a great deal of sinful policy to cover his wicked fact; but did it prosper? See 2 Sam. 12. 12. It is an excellent note of Livy, ConsilJa callida, primâ specJe lta, tractata dura, eventu tristJa. Sinful policies in their first appearances, are pleasant and promising, in their management difficult, in their event sad. Some by sinful wayes have gotten wealth; but that Scripture hath been verified in their experience,