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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.
It's a greater mercy, to have an heart willing to refer all to God, and be at his dispose; than to enjoy presently the mercy we are most eager and impatient for. In that God pleases you, in this you please God. A mercy may be given yo• as the fruit of common Providence; but such a temper of heart is the fruit of special grace▪ ⟨p. 159⟩So much as the glorifying of God is better than the content and pleasure of the creature, so much is such a frame better, than such a fruition.
Expected mercies are never nearer, than when §3the hearts and hopes of Gods people are lowest. Thus in their deliverance out of Egypt, and Babylon, Ezek. 37. 11. So we have sound it in our own personal concerns: at Evening time it shall be light, Zach. 14. 7. When we look for increasing darkness, light▪ arises.
Our unfitness for mercy, is the reason why they §4are delayed so long. We put the blocks into the way of mercy, and then repine, that they make no more haste to us, Isa. 59. 1, 2. The Lords hand is not shortened, but our iniquities have separated betwixt him and us.