Divine Conduct, or The Mystery of Providence

By a sudden and unexpected stroke, V. 9.

By a suddain and unexpected stroke, V. 9.

And what shall the effects of such Providences be to the Righteous? Why, it shall be matter of joy, V. 10. And great confirmation to their faith in God, V. 11. Verily there is a God that judgeth in the earth.

And on the contrary, how convincingly clear are those Providences, that demonstrate the Being, Wisdom, Power, Love and Faithfulness of God, in the supporting, preserving and delivering of the Righteous, in all their dangers, fears and difficulties? In these things the Lord shows himself to his people, Psal. 94. 1. Yea, he shows himself to spiritual eyes in these Providences, as clearly, as the Sun manifest• himself by his own beams of light, Hab. 3. 3, 4. His brightness was as the light, and he had borns coming out of his hands, and there was the hiding of his power. It's spoken of the Lords going forth for his people in their deliverance from their Enemies: and then he had horns or rays and beams of power and mercy coming out of his hands; by his ⟨p. 176⟩hands, are meant his Providential administrations and dispensations, and the horns that came out of them, are nothing else but the glorious display of his Attributes in those Providences. How did God make himself known to his people in that signal deliverance of them out of Egypt? See Exod. 6. 3. then he was known to them by his name Jehovah, in giving being by his Providences to the mercies promised.