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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.
If Providence delay the performance of any mercy to you, that you have long waited and prayed for• yet see, that you despond not; nor grow weary of waiting upon God for that reason. It pleases the Lord oftentimes to try, and exercise his people thi• way, and make them cry, How long Lord, ho• long? Psal. 13. 1, 2.
If Providence delay the performance of any mercy to you, that you have long waited and prayed for• yet see, that you despond not; nor grow weary of wait•ing upon God for that reason. It pleases the Lord oftentimes to try, and exercise his people thi• way, and make them cry, How long Lord, ho• long? Psal. 13. 1, 2.
These delays both upon spiritual and temporal accounts are frequent, and when they befa••us, we are too apt to interpret them as denials and fall into a sinful despondency of mind, though• ⟨p. 157⟩there be no cause at all for it, Psal. 31. 12. Lam. 3. 8. 44. It is not always that the returns of prayer are dispatched to us in the same hour they are asked of God; yet sometimes it falls out so, Isa. 65. 24