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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.
What a singular encouragement to faith do §2former Experiences yield it, by answering all the pleas and objections of unbelief drawn from the object of faith? Now there be two things that unbelief stumbles at in God: One is his Power, the other his Willingness to help.
(1.) Unbelief objects the impossibility of relief in deep distresses, Psal. 78. 19. Can God furnish a Table in the Wilderness? can be give bread also? can be provide flesh for his people? O vile and unworthy thoughts of God! proceeding from our measuring the immense and boundless power of God, by our own line and measure: because we see not which way relief should come, we conclude, none is to be expected. But all these reasonings of Unbelief are vanquished by a serious reflection upon our own Experiences: God hath helped, therefore he can, Isa. 59. 1. His hand is not shortened: (i. e.) he hath as much power and ability as formerly.
(1.) Unbelief objects the impossibility of relief in deep distresses, Psal. 78. 19. Can God furnish a Table in the Wilderness? can be give bread also? can be provide flesh for his people? O vile and unworthy thoughts of God! proceeding from our measuring the immense and boundless power of God, by our own line and measure: because we see not which way relief should come, we conclude, none is to be expected. But all these reasonings of Unbelief are vanquisht by a serious reflection upon our own Experiences: God hath helped, therefore he can, Isa. 59. 1. His hand is not shortned: (i. e.) he hath as much power and ability as formerly.