Divine Conduct, or The Mystery of Providence

But our English, making out the sense by an universal particle, is most fully agreeable to the scope of the Text. For it cannot but be a great encouragement to his faith, that God had transacted all things, or performed all things for him; this Providence that never failed him in any of the straits that ever he met with (and his life was a life of many straits) he might well hope it would not now fail him, though this were an extraordinary and matchless one.

Bring we then our thoughts a little closer to this Scripture, and it will give us a fair and lovely prospect of Providence ⟨p. 7⟩in its 1. Universal 2. Effectual 3. Beneficial 4. Encouraging Influence upon the Affairs and Concerns of the Saints.

The expression imports the Universal Interest §1and Influence of Providence in and upon all the Concerns and Interests of the Saints. It hath not only its hand in this or that, but in all that concerns them. It hath its eye upon every thing that relates to them throughout their lives, from first to last. Not only great, and more important, but the most minute and ordinary affairs of our lives are transacted and managed by it. It touches all things that touch us, whether more nearly or remotely.

The expression imports the Vniversal Interest §1and Influence of Providence in and upon all the Concerns and Interests of the Saints. It hath not only its hand in this or that, but in all that concerns them. It hath its eye upon every thing that relates to them throughout their lives, from first to last. Not only great, and more important, but the most minute and ordinary affairs of our lives are transacted and managed by it. It touches all things that touch us, whether more nearly or remotely.