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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.
That God doth give men secret hints and intimations of his Will by his Providence, cannot be doubted; but yet Providences in themselves, are no stable rule of duty, nor sufficient discovery of the Will of God. We may say of them, as it is, Job 23. 8, 9. Behold, I go forward, but he is not there: and backward, but I cannot perceive him: an the left hand where he doth work, but I cannot behold him: he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him.
If Providence in it self be allowed to be a su• •icient discovery of Gods Will to us, then we shall be forced often times to justify and condemn the same cause or person, forasmuch as there is one event happens to all, and as it falls out to the good, so to the wicked, Eccles. 9. 2. Beside, if Providence alone were the Rule to judge any action or design by; then a wicked undertakement would cease to be so, if it should succeed well; but sin is sin still, and duty is duty still, what ever the events and issues of either be.
If Providence in it self be allowed to be a su• •icient discovery of Gods Will to us, then we shall be forced often times to justifie and condemn the same cause or person, forasmuch as there is one event happens to all, and as it falls out to the good, so to the wicked, Eccles. 9. 2. Beside, if Providence alone were the Rule to judge any action or design by; then a wicked undertakement would cease to be so, if it should succeed well; but sin is sin still, and duty is duty still, what ever the events and issues of either be.