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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.
Consult Providence now, and you shall find it in all respects according to the report of the Word. O how true is the Scripture testimony herein! There are many thousand Witnesses now living, that can set their seals to both parts of this proposition. What men save (as they count saving) with one hand, Providence scatters by another hand: and what they scatter abroad with a liberal hand and single eye for God, is surely repaid to them or theirs. Never did any man lose by distributing for God. He that lends to the poor foeneratur Domino, as some expound that Text, puts his money to interest to the Lord. Some have observed how Providence hath doubled all they have laid out for God, in ways unexpected to them.
Consult Providence now, and you shall find it in all respects according to the report of the Word. O how true is the Scripture testimony herein! There are many thousand Witnesses now living, that can set their seals to both parts of this proposition. What men save (as they count saving) with one hand, Providence scatters by another hand: and what they scatter abroad with a liberal hand and single eye for God, is surely repay'd to them or theirs. Never did any man lose by distributing for God. He that lends to the poor foeneratur Domino, as some expound that Text, puts his money to interest to the Lord. Some have observed how Providence hath doubled all they have laid out for God, in wayes unexpected to them.
The Word assures us, that the best expedient for a man to settle his own interest in the consciences and affections of men, is to direct his ways, so as to please the Lord, Prov. 16. 7. and doth not Providence confirm it? This the three Jews found by experience, Dan. 3. 28, 29. and so did Daniel, chap. 6. v. 20, 21, 22. This kept up John's reputation in the conscience of Herod,