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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.
But what credit can these plausible tales of Satan obtain with a Christian who hath been treasuring up all his life long the memorials of God's ⟨p. 207⟩tender regard both to his wants and prayers, and that hath carefully remarked the evident returns of his prayers, and gracious condescensions of God to him •rom his beginning to that moment? In this case his saith is mightily assisted by thousands of experiences which back and encourage it, and will not suffer the soul to give up so easily a truth which he hath so often sensibly felt and tasted. I am sure (saith he) God hath had a tender fatherly care of me ever since I became his: he never failed me yet in any former strait; and I cannot believe he will do so now. I know his love is like himself, unchangeable. Job. 13. 1. having loved his own which were in the world he loved them unto the end: for this God is our God for ever and ever, he will be our guide even unto death. Psal. 48. 14. Did he love me in my youth, and will he cast me off in my decrepit age? O God, (saith the Psalmist) thou hast taught me from my youth, and hitherto have I declared thy wondrous works, now also when I am old and grey headed, O God, forsake me not, Psal. 71. 17, 18.
But what credit can these plausible tales of Satan obtain with a Christian who hath been treasuring up all his life long the memorJals of God's ⟨p. 207⟩tender regard both to his wants and prayers, and that hath care•ully remarked the evident returns of his prayers, and gracious condescensions of God to him •rom his beginning to that moment? In this case his saith is mightily assisted by thousands of experiences which back and encourage it, and will not suffer the soul to give up so easily a truth which he hath so often sensibly felt and tasted. I am sure (saith he) God hath had a tender fatherly care of me ever since I became his: he never failed me yet in any former strait; and I cannot believe he will do so now. I know his love is like himself, unchangeable.