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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.
And if so, how cheering, supporting, and encouraging must the consideration of these things be in a day of distress and trouble? What life and hope will it inspire our Hearts and Prayers withal, when great pressures lie upon us? It had such a cheering influence upon the Psalmist at this time, when the state of his affairs was to the eye of sense and reason forlorn, and desperate: there was now but an hairs breadth (as we say) betwixt him and ruin.
And if so, how chearing, supporting, and encouraging must the consideration of these things be in a day of distress and trouble? What life and hope will it inspire our Hearts and Prayers withal, when great pressures lie upon us? It had such a chearing influence upon the Psalmist at this time, when the state of his affairs was to the eye of sense and reason forlorn, and desperate: there was now but an hairs breadth (as we say) betwixt him and ruine.
A potent, e••aged, and implacable Enemy had driven him into the hole of a rock, and was come after him into that hole, yet now whilst his soul is among Lyons, whilst he lies in a cranny of the Rock, expecting every moment to be drawn out to death, the reflections he had upon the gracious performances of the Most High for him, from the beginning to that moment, support his soul, and inspire hope and life into his prayers, I will cry unto God most high, unto God that performeth all things for me.
A potent, e••aged, and implacable Enemy had driven him into the hole of a rock, and was come after him into that hole, yet now whilst his soul is among Lyons, whilest he lies in a cranny of the Rock, expecting every moment to be drawn out to death, the reflections he had upon the gracious performances of the Most High for him, from the beginning to that moment, support his soul, and inspire hope and life into his prayers, I will cry unto God most high, unto God that performeth all things for me.