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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.
As First, The Supremacy of Providence, and §1its uncontrollable power in working. This is often seen in the good that it brings us in a way that's above the thoughts and cares of our minds, or labour of our hands. I had not thought (said Jacob) to have seen thy face; and lo, God hath showed me thy seed also, Gen. 48. 11. There is a frequent coincidency of Providences in a way of surprisal, which from no appearance, or the remotest tendency of outward causes could be foreseen, but rather falls visibly cross to the present Scheme, and posture of our affairs. Nothing tends to convince us of the vanity and ⟨p. 198⟩folly of our own solicitudes and projections, more than this doth.
As First, The Supremacy of Providence, and §1its uncontroulable power in working. This is often seen in the good that it brings us in a way that's above the thoughts and cares of our minds, or labour of our hands. I had not thought (said Jacob) to have seen thy face; and lo, God hath shewed me thy seed also, Gen. 48. 11. There is a frequent coincidency of Providences in a way of surprizal, which from no appearance, or the remotest tendency of outward causes could be foreseen, but rather falls visibly cross to the present Scheme, and posture of our affairs. Nothing tends to convince us of the vanity and ⟨p. 198⟩folly of our own sollicitudes and projections, more than this doth.
The profound Wisdom of Providence in all that it performeth for the people of God. The Wheels are full of eyes, Ezek. 1. 18