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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.
The Fifth Motive.
The Recognition of former Providences will minister to your souls continual matter of praise and thanksgiving, which is the very employment of the Angels in Heaven, and the sweetest part of our lives on Earth.
THe Recognition of former Providences will minister to your souls continual matter of praise and thanksgiving, which is the very employment of the Angels in Heaven, and the sweetest part of our lives on Earth.
See Psal. 61. 7, 8. If God will prepare Mercy and Truth for David, he will prepare Praises for •is God, and that daily. So Psal. 71. 6. By thee have I been holden up from the womb, thou art he that took me out of my Mothers bowels; (there Mercies from the beginning are recognized.) My praise shall be continually of thee: there the natural result of those recognitions is expressed.
There be five things belonging to the praise of God, and all of them have relation to his Providences exercised about us.