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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.
The Fifth Direction.
Lastly, Work up your hearts to those frames, and exercise those affections which the several Providences of God that are versant about you call for, Eccles. 7. 14. Suit your selves to answer the design and end of God in all Providences. As there are various affections planted in your souls, so are there several graces planted in those affections, and several Providences appointed to draw forth, and exercise these graces.
LAstly, Work up your hearts to those frames, and exercise those affectJons which the several Providences of God that are versant about you call for, Eccles. 7. 14. Suit your selves to answer the design and end of God in all Providences. As there are various affections planted in your souls, so are there several graces planted in those affections, and several Providences appointed to draw forth, and exercise these graces.
When the Providences of God are sad, and afflictive either upon the Church in general, or your families and persons in particular, then it is seasonable for you to exercise godly sorrow and humility of spirit: for in that day, and by those Providences God doth call to it, Isa. 22. 12. Micah 6. 9. Now, sensitive pleasure and natural joy, is out of season, Ezek. 21. 10. Should we then make mirth? If there be either (1.) A filial spirit in us, we cannot be light and vain, when our Father is angry; or (2.) If any real sense of the evil of sin which provokes Gods anger, we must be heavy hearted when God is smiting for it; or (3.) If any sense and compassion for the miseries that sin brings upon the world, it will make us to say with David,