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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.
There are two sorts of Comforts, Natural and Sensitive, Divine and Spiritual. There is a time when it becomes Christians to exercise both; so Hest. 9. 22. And there is a time when the former is to be suspended and laid by, Psal. 137. 2. But there is no season, wherein spiritual joy and comfort in God is unseasonable, as appears by those Scriptures, 1 Thess. 5. 16. Phil. 4. 4. This spiritual joy or comfort, is nothing else but the cheeriness of our heart in God, and the sense of our interest in him, and in his Promises. And it's sure, that no Providence can render this unseasonable to a Christian. Let us suppose the most afflicted and calamitous state a Christian can be incident to, yet,
There are two sorts of Comforts, Natural and Sensitive, Divine and Spiritual. There is a time when it becomes ChristJans to exercise both; so Hest. 9. 22. And there is a time when the former is to be suspended and laid by, Psal. 137. 2. But there is no season, wherein spiritual joy and comfort in God is unseasonable, as appears by those Scriptures, 1 Thess. 5. 16. Phil. 4. 4. This spiritual joy or comfort, is nothing else but the cheeriness of our heart in God, and the sense of our interest in him, and in his Promises. And it's sure, that no Providence can render this unseasonable to a Christian. Let us suppose the most afflicted and calamitous state a Christian can be incident to, yet,