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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 continuation of all your mercies and comforts, outward as well as inward, is the fruit of his Intercession in Heaven for you. For look, as the offering up of the Lamb of God a Sacrifice for sin, opened the door of mercy at first; so his appearing before God as a Lamb that had been slain, still keeps that door of mercy open, Rev. 5. 6. Heb. 9. 24. By this his intercession, our peace and comforts are prolonged to us, Zech. 1. 12, 13. Every sin we commit, would put and end to the mercies we possess, were it not for that caution which is put in for us by it, 1 john 2. 1, 2.' If any man sin, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous: and he is the propitJatJon for our sins, &c. This stops all pleas, and procures new pardons for new sins. Hence it is he saves to the uttermost, to the last completing act, Heb. 7. 25. New sins do not irritate our former pardons, nor cut off our privileges settled upon us in Christ.
The continuatJon of all your mercies and comforts, outward as well as inward, is the fruit of his Intercession in Heaven for you. For look, as the offering up of the Lamb of God a Sacrifice for sin, opened the door of mercy at first; so his appearing before God as a Lamb that had been slain, still keeps that door of mercy open, Rev. 5. 6. Heb. 9. 24. By this his intercession, our peace and comforts are prolonged to us, Zech. 1. 12, 13. Every sin we commit, would put and end to the mercies we possess, were it not for that caution which is put in for us by it, 1 •ohn 2. 1, 2.' If any man sin, we have an A•vocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous: and he is the propitJatJon for our sins, &c. This stops all pleas, and procures new pardons for new sins. Hence it is he saves to the uttermost, to the last compleating act,