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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.
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.
(1.) As to the things revealed, there is great difference: for the great and necessary duties of ⟨p. 218⟩Religion are revealed to us in the Word, with greatest perspicuity and evidence. About these there can be no hesitation; but things of a lower nature and lesser concern are left more obscure.
(1.) As to the things revealed, there is great differenc•: for the great and necessary duties of ⟨p. 218⟩Religion are revealed to us in the Word, with greatest perspicuity and evidence. About these there can be no hesitation; but things of a lower nature and lesser concern are left more obscure.
(2.) As to the persons to whom God reveals his Will, there is great difference; some are strong men, others babes, 1 Cor. 3. 1. Some have senses exercised, others are of weak and dull understanding; and we know every thing is received according to the ability and measure of the person receiving it. Hence it is, that one mans way is very plain before him, he knows what he ought to do: the other is ever and anon at a loss, bivious and uncertain what to do.