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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.
(3.) What a transporting pleasure is it, to behold great blessings and advantages to us wrought by Providence, out of those very things that seemed to threaten our ruin or misery? and yet by due observing the ways of Providence, you may to your singular comfort find it so. Little did Joseph think his transportation into Egypt, had been in order to his advancement there; yet he lived with joy to see it, and with a thankful heart to acknowledge it, Gen. 45. 5. Wait and observe, and you shall assuredly find that Promise, Rom. 8. 28. working out its way through all Providences. How many times have you been made to say as David, Psal. 119. 71. It is good for me that I have been afflicted. O what a difference have we seen betwixt our afflictions at our first meeting with them, and our parting from them! We have entertained them with sighs and tears, but parted from them with joy, blessing God for them, as the happy Instruments of our good. Thus our fears and sorrows are turned into praises and songs of thanksgiving.
(3.) What a transporting pleasure is it, to behold great blessings and advantages to us wrought by Providence, out of those very things that seemed to threaten our ruine or misery? and yet by due observing the wayes of Providence, you may to your singular comfort find it so. Little did Joseph think his transportation into Egypt, had been in order to his advancement there; yet he lived with joy to see it, and with a thankful heart to acknowledge it, Gen. 45. 5. Wait and observe, and you shall assuredly find that Promise, Rom. 8. 28. working out its way through all Providences. How many times have you been made to say as David, Psal. 119. 71. It is good for me that I have been afflicted. O what a difference have we seen betwixt our afflictions at our first meeting with them, and our parting from them! We have entertained them with sighs and tears, but parted from them with joy, blessing God for them, as the happy Instruments of our good. Thus our fears and sorrows are turned into praises and songs of thanksgiving.