Divine Conduct, or The Mystery of Providence

The Septuagint renders it by [Greek or Hebrew] who profiteth, or benefiteth me. And it is a certain Truth, that all the results and issues of Providence ⟨p. 6⟩are profitable and beneficial to the Saints. But the Supplement in our Translation well receives the importance of the place, Who performeth all things. And it involves the most strict and proper notion of Providence, which is nothing else but the performance of God's gracious purposes, and promises to his people. And therefore Vatablus and Muis supply and fill up the room which the conciseness of the Original leaves, with quae promisit, I will cry unto God most high, unto God that performeth the things which he hath promised. Payment is the performance of promises. Grace makes the promise, and Providence the payment.

The Sep•uagint renders it by 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 who profiteth, or benefiteth me. And it is a certain Truth, that all the results and issues of Providence ⟨p. 6⟩are profitable and beneficial to the Saints. But the Supplement in our Translation well receives the importance of the place, Who performeth all things. And it involves the most strict and proper notion of Providence, which is nothing else but the performance of God's gracious purposes, and promises to his people. And therefore Vatablus and Muis supply and fill up the room which the conciseness of the Original leaves, with quae promisit, I will cry unto God most high, unto God that performeth the things which he hath promised. Payment is the performance of promises. Grace makes the promise, and Providence the payment.

Piscator fills it with benignitatem & misericordJam suam, unto God that performeth his kindness and mercy. But still it supposes the mercy performed, to be contained in the promise. Mercy is sweet in the promise, and much more so in the providential performance of it to us.