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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.
Eye the Wisdom of God in all your afflictions, behold it in the choice of the kind of your affliction, this, and not another: the Time, now and not at another season: the Degree, in this measure only, and not in a greater: the Supports afforded you under it, not le•t altogether helpless: the Issue to which it's over ruled, it's made to your good, not ruin. Look upon all these, and then ask thy heart that question God asked Jonah, Dost thou well to be angry? Surely, when you consider all, what need you had of these rods, that your corruptions will require all this, it may be much more to mortify them; that without the perishing of these things, you might have perished for ever; you will see great reasons to be quiet and well satisfied under the hand of God.
Eye the Wisdom of God in all your afflictions, behold it in the choice of the kind of your affliction, this, and not another: the Time, now and not at another season: the Degree, in this measure only, and not in a greater: the Supports afforded you under it, not le•t altogether helpless: the Issue to which it's over ruled, it's made to your good, not ruine. Look upon all these, and then ask thy heart that question God askt Jonah, Dost thou well to be angry? Surely, when you consider all, what need you had of these rods, that your corruptions will require all this, it may be much more to mortifie them; that without the perishing of these things, you might have perished for ever; you will see great reasons to be quiet and well satisfied under the hand of God.
Set the faithfulness of the Lord before you under the saddest Providences. So did David, Psal. 119. 75. This is according to his Covenant faithfulness, Psal. 89. 32. Hence it is, that the Lord will not withhold a rod when need requires it,