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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.
His extreme danger, expressed both in the Title,§1 and body of the Psalm. The Title tells us, this Psalm was composed by him when he hid himself from Saul in the Cave. This Cave was in the Wilderness of Engedi among the broken Rocks where the wild Goats inhabited,1 an obscure and desolate hole; yet even thither the Envy of Saul pursued him, I Sam. 24. 1, 2. And now he that had been so long hunted as a Partridge upon the Mountains, seems to be enclosed in the net; for the place was begirt with his Enemies, and having in this place no out-let another way, and Saul himself entering into the mouth of this Cave, in the sides and creeks whereof he and his men lay hid, and saw him; judge to how great an extremity, and to what a desperate state things were now brought: Well might he say, as it is ver. 4. My soul is among Lyons, and I lye even among them that are set on fire. What hope now remained? What but immediate destruction could be expected?
His extream danger, expressed both in the Title,§1 and body of the Psalm. The Title tells us, this Psalm was composed by him when he hid himself from Saul in the Cave. This Cave was in the Wilderness of Engedi among the broken Rocks where the wild Goats inhabited,1 an obscure and desolate hole; yet even thither the Envy of Saul pursued him, I Sam. 24. 1, 2. And now he that had been so long hunted as a Partridge upon the Mountains, seems to be enclosed in the net; for the place was begirt with his Enemies, and having in this place no out-let another way, and Saul himself entring into the mouth of this Cave, in the sides and creeks whereof he and his men lay hid, and saw him; judge to how great an extremity, and to what a desperate state things were now brought: Well might he say, as it is ver. 4. My soul is among Lyons, and I lye even among them that are set on fire. What hope now remained? What but immediate destruction could be expected?
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