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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 Ninth Motive.
Due observations of the ways of God in his Providences towards us, have an excellent usefulness and aptitude to advance and improve Holiness in our hearts and lives. For,
DVe observations of the wayes of God in his Providences towards us, have an excellent usefulness and aptitude to advance and improve Holiness in our hearts and lives. For,
The Holiness of God is manifested to us in all §1his works of Providence, Psal. 145. 17. The Lord is righteous in all his ways, and holy in all his works. The Instruments used by Providence may be very sinful & wicked, they may aim at base ends, & make use of wicked mediums to attain them; but it's certain Gods designs are most pure, and all his workings are so too. Though he permits, limits, orders and over-rules many unholy persons and actions; yet ⟨p. 202⟩in all he works like himself; and his Holiness is no more defiled and stained by their impurity; than the Sun-beams are by the noisome exhalations of a dunghill, Deut. 32. 4. He is the rock, his work is perfect; for all his ways are judgement, a God of truth, and without iniquity: just and right is he. So that in all his Providences he sets before us a perfect pattern of holiness, that we might be holy in all our ways, as our Father is in all his ways. But this is not all.
The Holiness of God is manifested to us in all