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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.
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 ⟨p. 233⟩you are exercising your Grace; and it's more excellent to act Grace, than to enjoy comfort. All this while the Lord is training you up in the exercise of faith and patience, and bending your wills in submission to himself; and what do you lose by that? Yea, and (2.) When ever the desired mercy comes, it will be so much the sweeter to you: for, look how much faith and prayer hath been employed to produce it, how many wrestlings you have had with God for it, so many more degrees of sweetness you will •ind in it, when it comes. O therefore, •aint not, how long soever God delay you.
Seventh Consideration.1
- 17. Consi••