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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.
(3.) The manner of Gods revealing his Will to men is also very different. Some have had special, personal, and peculiar discoveries of it made to them. So had Samuel about the choice of the person whom he should anoint King, 1 Sam. 9. 15. And so had David, 1 Sam. 23. 2, 4, 9, 10, 11, 12. where you find upon his enquiry of God (likely by the Urim and Thummim) God told him what was his duty as to that expedition, and what would be the event of it.
(3.) The manner of Gods revealing his Will to men is also very different. Some have had special, personal, and peculiar discoveries of it made to them. So had Samuel about the choice of the person whom he should anoint King, 1 Sam. 9. 15. And so had David, 1 Sam. 23. 2, 4, 9, 10, 11, 12. where you find upon his enquiry of God (likely by the Vrim and Thummim) God told him what was his duty as to that expedition, and what would be the event of it.
But now, all are tied up to the ordinary standing rule of the written Word, and must not expect any such extraordinary revelations from God. The way we now have to know the Will of God concerning us in difficult cases, is to search and study the Scriptures, and where we find no particular rule to guide us in this or that particular case, there we are to apply general rules, and govern our selves according to the Analogy and proportion they bear towards each other.
But now, all are tyed up to the ordinary standing rule of the written Word, and must not expect any such extraordinary revelations from God. The way we now have to know the Will of God concerning us in difficult cases, is to search and study the Scriptures, and where we find no particular rule to guide us in this or that particular case, there we are to apply general rules, and govern our selves according to the Analogy and proportion they bear towards each other.