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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.
This Wisdom shines out to us in the unexpected, yea, contrary events of things. How o•ten have we been courting some beautiful appearance that invited our senses, and with trembling shunned the formidable face of other things, when notwithstanding the issues of Providence have convinced us, that our danger lay in what we cou•ted, and our good in what we so studiously declined? This also is a sweet principle of peace and quiet to the Christians mind, that he knows not, but his good may be imported in what seemed to threaten his ruin. Many were the distresses and straits of Israel in the Wilderness, but all was to humble them, that he might do them good in the latter end, Deut. 8. 16. Sad and dismal was the face of that Providence that sent them out of their own land, into the land of the Chaldeans; yet even this was a project to do them good, Jer. 24. 5. How often have we retracted our rash and headlong censures of things upon experience of this truth! and been taught to bless our afflictions and disappointments in the name of the Lord. Many a time have we kissed those troubles at parting, which we met with trembling. And what can promote peace under doubtful Providences more effectually than this?
This Wisdom shines out to us in the unexpected, yea, contrary events of things. How o•ten have we been courting some beautiful appearance that invited our senses, and with trembling shun'd the formidable face of other things, when notwithstanding the issues of Providence have convinced us, that our danger lay in what we cou•ted, and our good in what we so studiously declined? This also is a sweet principle of peace and quiet to the Christians mind, that he knows not, but his good may be imported in what seemed to threaten his ruine. Many were the distresses and straits of Israel in the Wilderness, but all was to humble them, that he might do them good in the latter end, Deut. 8. 16. Sad and dismal was the face of that Providence that sent them out of their own land, into the land of the Chaldeans; yet even this was a project to do them good,