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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.
Third Consideration.1
- 13. Consid.
You complain, Providence delays to perform to you the mercies you have prayed and waited for; but have you right ends in your desires after these mercies? It may be that's the cause, you ask and receive not, James 4. 3. The want of a good aim, is the reason why we want good success in our prayers. It may be we pray for prosperity, and our end is to please the flesh; we look no higher than the pleasure and accommodation of the flesh; we beg and wait for deliverance from such a trouble and affliction, not that we might be the more expedite and prepared for obedience, but freed of what is grievous to us, and destroys our pleasure in the world.
You complain, Providence delayes to perform to you the mercies you have prayed and waited for; but have you right ends in your desires after these mercies? It may be that's the cause, you ask and receive not, James 4. 3. The want of a good aim, is the reason why we want good success in our prayers. It may be we pray for prosperity, and our end is to please the flesh; we look no higher than the pleasure and accommodation of the flesh; we beg and wait for deliverance from such a trouble and affliction, not that we might be the more expedite and prepared for obedience, but freed of what is grievous to us, and destroyes our pleasure in the world.