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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.
And so for afflictions of all kinds, the greatest and sorest of them; they do work in the influence of Providence a great deal of good to the Saints, and that not only as the occasions, but as the Instruments and means of it, Isa. 27. 9. by this shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged, (i. e.) by the instrumentality of this sanctified affliction.
To others nothing is sanctified either as an Instrument or occasion of any spiritual good; but as the worst things are ordered to the benefit of the Saints, so the best things wicked men enjoy do them no good. Their Prayers are turned into sin, Psal. 109. 7. The Ordinances are the savour of Death, 2 Cor. 2. 16. The Grace of God turned into wantonness, Jude v. 4. Christ himself a rock of Offence, 1 Pe. 2. 8. Their Table a snare, Psal. 69. 22. Their Prosperity their ruin, Prov. 1. 32. As persons are, so things work for good or evil. Tit. 1. 15. To the pure all things are pure, but to them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure.
To others nothing is sanctified either as an Instrument or occasion of any spiritual good; but as the worst things are ordered to the benefit of the Saints, so the best things wicked men enjoy do them no good. Their Prayers are turned into sin, Psal. 109. 7. The Ordinances are the savour of Death,