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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.
By this we are drawn into an unworthy suspicion §1and distrust of the faithfulness of God in the Promises. Sarah laughed at the tidings of the Son of Promise, because reason contradicted, and told her, it was naturally impossible, Gen. 18. 13, 14.
By this we are drawn into an unworthy suspicion §1and distruct of the faithfulness of God in the Promises. Sarah laught at the tydings of the Son of Promise, because reason contradicted, and told her, it was natu•ally impossible, Gen. 18. 13, 14.
Hence comes despondency of mind, and faintness §2of heart under afflictive Providences; reason can discern no good fruits in them, nor deliverance from them, and so our hands hang down in a sinful discouragement, saying, all these things are against us, 1 Sam. 27. 1.
Hence comes despondency of mind, and saintness §2of heart under afflictive Providences; reason can discern no good fruits in them, nor deliverance from them, and so our hands hang down in a sinful discouragement, saying, all these things are against us, 1 Sam. 27. 1.