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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 sanctification of all, is by our union with Christ: 'tis by virtue of our union with his person, that we enjoy the sanctified gifts and blessings of Providence. All these are mercies additional to that great mercy CHRIST, Matth. 6. 33. they are given with him, as in Rom. 8. 32. this is the Tenure by which we hold them, 1 Cor. 3. 21, 22, 23. Look, what we lost in Adam, is restored again with Advantage in Christ: immediately upon the fall, that curse, Gen. 2. 17. seized upon all the miserable posterity of Adam, and upon all their comforts, outward as well as inward; and this still lies heavy upon them: All that Providence doth for them that are Christless, is but to feed so many poor condemned wretches, till the sentence they are under, be executed upon them: it is indeed bountiful and open-handed to many of them; and fills them with Earthly comforts; ⟨p. 189⟩but not one special sanctified mercy is to be found among all their enjoyments: these gifts of Providence do but deceive, defile and destroy them through their own corruptions, and for want of union with Christ, Prov. 1. 32. The prosperity of fools shall destroy them.
The sanctification of all, is by our union with Christ: 'tis by vertue of our union with his person, that we enjoy the sanctified gifts and blessings of Providence. All these are mercies additional to that great mercy CHRIST, Matth. 6. 33. they are given with him, as in Rom. 8. 32. this is the Tenure by which we hold them, 1 Cor. 3. 21, 22, 23. Look, what we lost in Adam, is restored again with Advantage in Christ: immediately upon the fall, that curse,