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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.) Doth Communion with God in Ordinances,§2 melt the heart into love to God? Cant. 2. 3, 4, 5. Why, so doth the observation of his Providences also. Never did any man convers• with Gods works of Providence aright, but f••nd his heart at some times melted into love to the God of his ⟨p. 166⟩mercies, Psal. 18. 1. compared with the Title. When God had delivered him from the hand of Saul, and all his Enemies, he said, I will love thee O Lord my strength. Every man loves the mercies of God, but a Saint loves the God of his mercies. The mercies of God, as they are the fuel of a wicked mans lusts, so they are fuel to maintain a good mans love to God; not that their love to God is grounded upon these external benefits, Not thine, but thee, O Lord, is the motto of a gracious soul; but yet these things serve to blow up the flame of love to God in their hearts, and they find it so.
(2.) Doth Communion with God in Ordinances,§2 melt the heart into love to God? Cant. 2. 3, 4, 5. Why, so doth the observation of his Providences also. Never did any man convers• with Gods works of Providenc• aright, but f••nd his heart at some times melted into love to the God of his ⟨p. 166⟩mercies, Psal. 18. 1. compared with the Title. When God had delivered him from the hand of Saul, and all his Enemies, he said, I will love thee O Lord my strength. Every man loves the mercies of God, but a Saint loves the God of his mercies. The mercies of God, as they are the fewel of a wicked mans lusts, so they are fewel to maintain a good mans love to God; not that their love to God is grounded upon these external benefits, Not thine, but thee, O Lord, is the motto of a gracious soul; but yet these things serve to blow up the flame of love to God in their hearts, and they find it so.