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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.
Set the Grace and Goodness of God before you §2in all afflictive Providences. O see him passing by you in the cloudy and dark day, proclaiming his Name, the Lord, the Lord merciful and gracious. There are two sorts of mercies that are seldom eclipsed by the darkest affliction that befalls the Saints in their temporal concerns, sc. sparing mercy in this world, and saving mercy in that to come. It is not so bad now as it might, and we deserved it should be, and it will be better hereafter. This the Church observed, and reasoned ⟨p. 146⟩her self quiet from it, Lam. 3. 22. Hath he taken some? he might have taken all. Are we afflicted? it's mercy we are not destroyed. Oh if we consider what temporal mercies are yet spared, and what spiritual mercies are bestowed, and yet continued to us, we shall find cause to admire mercy, rather than complain of severity.
Set the Grace and Goodness of God before you §2in all afflictive Providences. O see him passing by you in the cloudy and dark day, proclaiming his Name, the Lord, the Lord merciful and gracJous. There are two sorts of mercies that are seldom eclipsed by the darkest affliction that befalls the Saints in their temporal concerns, sc. sparing mercy in this world, and saving mercy in that to come. It is not so bad now as it might, and we deserved it should be, and it will be better herea•t•r. This the Church observed, and reasoned ⟨p. 146⟩her self quiet from it, Lam. 3. 22. Hath he taken some? he might have taken all. Are we afflicted? it's mercy we are not destroyed. Oh if we consider what temporal mercies are yet spared, and what spiritual mercies are bestowed, and yet continued to us, we shall find cause to admire mercy, rather than complain of severity.