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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 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, 1. Pet. 1. 6. Nor will he forsake his people under the rod, when he inflicts it, 2 Cor. 4. 9.
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, 1. Pet. 1. 6. Nor will he forsake his people under the rod, when he in•licts it, 2 Cor. 4. 9.
Oh what quietness will this breed! I see my God will not lose my heart, if a rod can prevent it; he had rather hear me groan here, than howl hereafter: his love is judicious, not ⟨p. 147⟩fond: he consults my good, rather than my ease.