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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.
(2.) Consider, though you be condemned persons, and have no promise to entitle you to any mercy; yet there are very many mercies in your possession at this day. Be your condition as afflictive as it will, is life nothing? especially considering whither you must sink, when that thread is cut. Are the necessary supports of life nothing? Doth not Providence minister to you these things, though you daily disoblige it, and provoke God to send you to your own place? But, above all, is the Gospel and precious means of salvation nothing, by which you yet are in a capacity of escaping the damnation of Hell? O what would the damned say, if they were but put into your condition once more? What, and yet fret against God, because every thing else suits not your desires?
(3.) Consider, that if ever you be rescued out of that miserable condition you are in, such cross Providences, as these you complain of, are the most probable means to do it. Alas! prosperity and success is not the way to save, but destroy you, Prov. 1. 32. You must be bound in fetters, and holden in cords of affliction, if ever your ear be opened to instruction, Job 36. 8, 9, 10. Woe to you, if you go on smoothly in the way in which you are, and meet with no crosses.
(3.) Consider, that if ever you be rescued out of that miserable condition you are in, such cross Providences, as these you complain of, are the most probable means to do it. Alas! prosperity and success is not the way to save, but destroy you, Prov. 1. 32. You must be bound in fetters, and holden in cords of affliction, if ever your ear be opened to instruction, Job 36. 8, 9, 10. Wo to you, if you go on smoothly in the way in which you are, and meet with no crosses.