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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.
Second Consideration.1
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But it you say you have long waited upon God for spiritual mercies to your souls according to the Promise, and still those mercies are deferred, and your eyes fail whilst you look for them; I would desire you seriously to consider of what kind those spiritual mercies are, for which you have so long waited upon God. Spiritual mercies are of two sorts; such as belong to the Essence, the very being of the new creature, without which it must fail: or to its well being, and the comfort of the inner man; without which you cannot live so cheerfully as you would. The mercies of the former kind are Absolutely necessary, and therefore put into Absolute Promises, as you see, Jer. 32. 40. And ⟨p. 231⟩I will make an everlasting Covenant with them, that I will not turn away from them to do them good, but I will put my fear in their hearts, that they shall not depart from me. But for the rest they are dispensed to us in such measures, and at such seasons as the Lord sees fit, and many of his own people live for a long time without them. The donation and continuation of the Spirit, to quicken, sanctify and unite us with Christ is necessary, but his joys and comforts are not so. A Child of light may walk in darkness, Isa. 50. 10. He lives by faith, and not by feeling.