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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 Providences of God may be observed to §3conduce to our holiness, not only by preventing sin,1 that we may not •all into it; but also by purging our sins when we are fallen into them, Isa. 27. 9. By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this is all the fruit to take away his sin. So Dan. 11. 33, 34, 35. they are of the same use that fire and water are for purging and cleansing; not that they can purge us from sin in their own virtue and power, for if so, those that have most afflictions would have most grace also; but it is in the virtue of Christ's blood, and God's blessing upon afflictive Providences, that they purge us from sin. A Cross without a Christ never did any man good. Now in God's afflictive Providences for sin there are many things that tend to the purging of it. For
The Providences of God may be observed to §3conduce to our holiness, not only by preventing sin,1 that we may not •all into it; but also by purging our sins when we are fallen into them, Isa. 27. 9. By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this is all the fruit to take away his sin. So Dan. 11. 33, 34, 35. they are of the same use that fire and water are for purging and cleansing; not that they can purge us from sin in their own vertue and power, for if so, those that have most afflictions would have most grace also; but it is in the vertue of Christ's blood, and God's blessing upon afflictive Providences, that they purge us from sin. A Cross without a Crist never did any man good. Now in God's afflictive Providences for sin there are many things that tend to the purging of it. For