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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.) He pleads former experiences of his help in past distresses, as an Argument encouraging hope under the present strait, ver. 2. I will cry unto God most high, unto God that performeth all things for me.
In which words I shall consider two things,
1. The Duty resolved upon, 2. The Encouragement to that resolution.
The duty resolved upon; I will cry unto God. Crying unto God, is an expression that doth not only denote Prayer, but intense and fervent prayer. To cry, is to pray in an holy passion; and such are usually speeding prayers, Psalm 18. 6. and Heb. 5. 7.