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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 Seventh Motive.
The due observations of Providence have a marvellous efficacy to melt the heart, and make it thaw and relent ingenuously before the Lord.
THe due observations of Providence have a marvellous efficacy to melt the heart, and make it thaw and relent ingenuously before the Lord.
How can a sanctified heart do less, than melt into tears, whilst it either considers the dealings of God from time to time with it: or compares the mercies received, with the sins committed; or the different administrations of Providence towards it self and others!
Let a man but set himself to think deliberately and closely of the ways of providence towards him, let him but follow the Tract […] providence, as it hath led him all along the way that he hath gone, and if there be any principle of gracious tenderness in him, he shall meet with variety of occasions to excite and draw it forth. Reader, go back with thy serious thoughts (1.) To the beginning of the ways of God with thee, the mercies that brake out early in thy youth, even the first born mercies from the womb of Providence; and thou wilt say, What need I go farther? Here is enough, not only to moves, but overwhelm my heart. May I not from this time cry unto thee, my Father, thou art the guide of my youth,