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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.
Fifth Consideration.1
- 15. Consid.
Your betters have waited long upon God for mercy, and why should not you? David waited till his eyes failed, Psal. 69. 3 The Church waited for him in the way of his judgements, Isa. 26. 8. Are you better than all the Saints that are gone before you? Is God more obliged to you than to all his people? They have quietly waited, and why should not you?
Sixth Consideration.1
- 16. Consid.
Will you lose any thing by patient waiting upon God for mercies? Certainly, not at all: Yea, it will turn to a double advantage to you to continue in a quiet submissive waiting posture upon God. For, (1.) Though you do not yet enjoy the good you wait for, yet all this while