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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.
As to the Will of God, it falls under a twofold §1consideration, of his secret and revealed Will; this distinction is found in that Scripture, Deut. 29. 29. The secret things belong unto the Lord our God, but those things which are revealed belong unto us, &c. The first is the rule of his own actions; the later of ours: and this only is concerned in the Query.
As to the Will of God, it falls under a twofold §1consideration, of his secret and revealed Will; this distinction is found in that Scripture, Deut. 29. 29. The secret things belong unto the Lord our God, but those things which are revealed belong unto us, &c. The first is the rule of his own actions; the later of ours: and this only is concerned in the Quere.
This Revealed Will of God is either manifested to us in his Word, or in his Works. The former is his commanding Will, the later his effecting or permitting Will; the one versant about good, the other about evil.
In these ways God manifests his Will to men, but yet with great variety and difference, both as to the things revealed, the persons to whom he reveals them, and the degrees of clearness in which they are revealed.
In these wayes God manifests his Will to men, but yet with great variety and difference, both as to the things revealed, the persons to whom he reveals them, and the degrees of clearness in which they are revealed.