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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 Word assures us, that sin is the Cause and §4Inlet of Affliction and Sorrow, and that there is an inseparable connection betwixt them, Numb. 32. 23. Be sure your sin will find you out: (i. e.) the sad effects and afflictions that follow it shall •ind you out. So Psal. 89. 30, 31, 32. If his sons forsake my Law, I will visit their iniquities with rods.
The Word assures us, that sin is the Cause and §4Inlet of Affliction and Sorrow, and that there is an inseparable connection betwixt them, Numb. 32. 23. Be sure your sin will find you out: (i. e.) the sad effects and afflictions that follow it shall •ind you out. So Psal. 89. 30, 31, 32. If his sons forsake my Law, I will visit their iniquitJes with rods.
Enquire now at the mouth of Providence, whether this be indeed so, according to the reports of the Word. Ask but your own Experiences, and you shall find, that just so Providence hath ordered it all along your way. When did you grow into a secure, vain, carnal frame, but you found some rousing, startling Providence sent to awaken you? When did you wound your Consciences with guilt, and God did not wound you for it, in some or other of your beloved enjoyments? Nay, so ordinary is this with God, that from the observations of their own frames and ways, many Christians have fore-boded and presaged troubles at hand.
Enquire now at the mouth of Providence, whether this be indeed so, according to the reports of the Word. Ask but your own Experiences, and you shall find, that just so Providence hath ordered it all along your way. When did you grow into a secure, vain, carnal frame, but you found some rouzing, startling Providence sent to awaken you? When did you wound your Consciences with guilt, and God did not wound you for it, in some or other of your beloved enjoyments? Nay, so ordinary is this with God, that from the observations of their own frames and wayes, many Christians have fore-boded and preaged troubles at hand.