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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.
(1.) Such rebukes of Providence discover the displeasure of God against us: the Lord frowns upon us in those Providences. Our father is angry, and these are the tokens of it; and nothing works more to the melting of a gracious hear• than this. Must not the heart of a Child melt and break whilst the father is angry. O this is more bitter to our Spirits than all the smart and anguish of the affliction can be to our flesh. See Psal. 38. 1, 2, 3. O Lord rebuke me not in thy wrath; neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure: for thine arrows stick fast in me; and thine band presseth ⟨p. 204⟩me sore. There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger: neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin.
(1.) Such rebukes of Providence discover the displeasure of God against us: the Lord frowns upon us in those Providences. Our father is angry, and these are the tokens of it; and nothing works more to the melting of a gracious hear• than this. Must not the heart of a Child melt and break whil'st the father is angry. O this is more bitter to our Spirits than all the smart and anguish of the affliction can be to our flesh. See Psal. 38. 1, 2, 3. O Lord rebuke me not in thy wrath; neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure: for thine arrows stick fast in me; and thine band presseth ⟨p. 204⟩me sore. There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger: neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin.
(2.) By these rebukes of sin, the evil of sin is discovered more sensibly to us, and we are made to see more clearly the evil of it in these glasses of affliction which Providence at such times sets before us, than formerly we ever saw.